Seven Days – review (ad)
I was kindly given an electronic copy of Seven Days by Michelle Kidd in exchange for an honest review*.
Seven Days book blurb
One killer. One city. One week.
July 2012 and a serial killer is terrorising the streets of London.
With the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games in just seven days time, Detective Inspector Jack MacIntosh and his team at the Metropolitan Police have one week to find him.
With the killer’s motives unknown, and a mysterious clue being left at each scene, the case takes on a menacing and personal twist.
Distracted by his own demons, will DI Jack MacIntosh solve the case before it is too late?
The clock is ticking.
Tick.
Tock.
My overall thoughts on Seven Days
Although this is the second book in the Macintosh series it can be read as a standalone book.
It’s London in 2012 and the Olympics is about to start just as a serial killer begins a rampage.
It’s down to DI Jack Macintosh and his team to stop this spree and catch the person responsible for these deaths and the Chief has given him just seven days to solve the case.
The killer leaves the victim wearing one shoe with another shoe placed at the scene signalling the next victim.
The story moves between the present day, the investigation, the killer’s perspective, and his victims, and some flashback scenes which gives the reader more insight into quite a few characters.
It’s quite fast-paced and the tension ramps up in the latter chapters.
Are the shoes a red herring?
Who is DS Carmichael?
A really enjoyable read with a few twists to keep you on your toes. And it leaves it open for future books.
About the author Michelle Kidd:
Michelle Kidd is a self-published author known for the Detective Inspector Jack MacIntosh series of novels.
Michelle qualified as a lawyer in the early 1990s and spent the best part of ten years practising civil and criminal litigation.
But the dream to write books was never far from her mind and in 2008 she began writing the manuscript that would become the first DI Jack MacIntosh novel – The Phoenix Project.
The book took eighteen months to write, but spent the next eight years gathering dust underneath the bed.
In 2018 Michelle self-published The Phoenix Project and had not looked back since.
There are currently three DI Jack MacIntosh novels, with a fourth in progress.
Michelle works full time for the NHS and lives in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. She enjoys reading, wine and cats – not necessarily in that order J
Bibliography:
The Phoenix Project (DI Jack MacIntosh book 1)
Seven Days (DI Jack MacIntosh book 2)
The Fifteen (DI Jack MacIntosh book 3)
Social Media:
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Website: https://www.michellekiddauthor.com/
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Purchase Links:
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/3obLftd
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/3qNy2bM
Publishing Information:
Published in paperback and digital format on 22nd January 2020
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This book sounds interesting and an author local to me too, just perfect 😊 Great review – I will check it out