The Jigsaw Man
Ratings11
Average rating3.8
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Ratings11
Average rating3.8
When body parts start washing up along the banks of the river Thames, the Serial Crimes Unit is called to investigate, and it quickly becomes apparent to DI Henley that there isn't just one victim. There are two. The murders are hauntingly familiar to Henley. The modus operandi matches that of Peter Olivier, the notorious Jigsaw Killer
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1 primary bookInspector Anjelica Henley is a 1-book series first released in 2020 with contributions by Nadine Matheson.
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I don't normally like serial killers and police procedurals, but this one was so fast paced and twisty! We got a bit of the detectives' home lives, but not too much. The detectives didn't seem too perfect or too broken either. It was a well told well balanced police procedural. So good!
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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“You never know though. This could still be a nice, straightforward investigation.”
Henley didn't reply as she picked up her bag, because every nerve in her body told her Pellacia believed that even less than she did.
THE JIGSAW MAN
The CSI team hadn't arrived by the time Henley had left [spoiler]'s home. Anthony was en route to a shooting on the Kingsland Road, but had promised to dispatch two of his team with unrealistic promises of paid overtime. Henley could feel the anger overwhelming her as she walked back to her car. Someone had dropped the ball and no one was taking responsibility. She was doing everything that she was trained to do, to the best of her ability, but it didn't feel as though it was enough. As if she wasn't enough.
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Stanford turned his back on the body. Henley knew how he was feeling. They thought they had seen it all, until life presented them with a fresh kind of hell.
The Jigsaw Man
THE JIGSAW MAN
This was an incredibly pleasing debut. A tightly woven police procedural type thriller that can also successfully stand its own ground as a stand alone novel.
I loved the POC representation in the story, both Ramouter and Henley and how refreshing it was to have the main characters in a thriller plot be non-white. Something which is surprisingly rare in the thriller genre or in my experience anyway.
This story follows Inspector Anjelica Henley who has had previous issues with the infamous Jigsaw Killer Olivier. But when dismembered body parts start getting dumped around the Deptford area and the MO is strikingly similar to the Jigsaw killer murders, Henley becomes embroiled in finding out what happened. But if Olivier is safely behind bars then who is the new murderer and what could his possible connection to the original Jigsaw Murders be?
A clever fast paced thriller. With sharp and tight plotting. This book is incredibly dark and disturbing. Content warnings for rape, dismemberment, murder and horrific violence. If you prefer your murder mysteries more cosy and more tame then I wouldn't recommend picking this up. But if you can handle the gore and the graphic nature of the violence in this book then I would say this is the next great thriller to be sinking your teeth into!
Thanks to the author Nadine Matheson, HQ and Netgalley for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.
2.5 stars
A intriguing police procedural with a gritty and chilling investigation plot, but very lacking in pace and overly drawn out. Didn't feel connected to a single character and ended up bored by the end of it.
May give the second book a try to see if that one is any better.
