Grove Atlantic
I’m a sucker for a good mystery or suspense novel, and Val McDermid has not disappointed me yet. The way she gets into the heads of her protagonists (who are so complex that it’s hard to know if they’re truly the good guys) is always well done. In this outing, the killer thinks the revenge he’s taking out on the girlfriend who unceremoniously dumped him is foolproof. He’s crashing weddings, picking up lonely women, and killing them in some of the most gruesome ways possible. But detective Carol Jordan and her team in the newly formed ReMIT division use psychological profiling and old-fashioned police work to eventually figure things out before the killer takes his fourth victim. This is the 10th(?) Carol Jordan outing, so the end will be a shock to fans of this series.