Flesh and Blood
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Publisher Description
Killer secrets. Killer crimes - the unmissable new DS McAvoy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author
"McAvoy is a true original" Mick Herron
DS Aector McAvoy is on a well-deserved family holiday when the news reaches him that he's been attacked and left for dead on one of Hull's most well-to-do streets.
It comes as something of a shock. But not as much as the discovery of who's really been attacked - and his growing realization it's no coincidence he's far from home, in an isolated, rural campsite, on today of all days.
McAvoy's superior officer - and best friend - DS Trish Pharaoh has been keeping secrets. Secrets that are catching up with her.
Secrets that could kill them all . . .
David Mark brings Hull to dark, brutal life in this gripping novel in the critically acclaimed DS McAvoy series - a perfect pick for fans of Denise Mina, Val McDermid and Peter Robinson.
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A too-elaborate plot hampers Mark's 11th procedural featuring British Det. Sgt. Aector McAvoy (following 2022's Blind Justice). After a man who could be his twin is violently assaulted , McAvoy receives a call from his colleague, checking that the detective hasn't been wounded. McAvoy learns the assault occurred outside the home of his boss, Trish Pharaoh, and the victim was her boyfriend, Icelandic cop Thor Ingolfsson. The resemblance makes McAvoy wonder whether he was the intended target, and Pharaoh muddies the waters by slipping away from the crime scene before she can be questioned. A theory emerges that the attack might have been organized by serial killer Reuben Hollow, whom Pharaoh put behind bars. Most of Hollow's victims were "dealers and people-traffickers; sex pests and wife-beaters," but two were hard-to-explain one-offs—or so they appeared. As McAvoy digs deeper into the case, long-buried secrets from Pharaoh's past threaten to violently erupt. An exciting climax can't salvage the contrived, convenience-riddled plot that comes before it, and some lines (one character's boots make a noise "like a horse chewing mint") land with a thud. This entry comes in well below the standards Mark has set for the series.
