Crime procedural with a twist.
How do you investigate an impossible crime? Bodies drained of blood crop up in Janice’s new jurisdiction on a regular basis. The first death was surprising, but just like the beginning of more TV crime dramas, when an unconnected character appears, you know they don’t have long to live. The reader gets a sometime brief, sometimes fairly lengthy introduction into their lives, which involve various pastimes including a F/F/M BDSM scene, before they joined the ranks of morgue residents. However, knowing what their fate was going to be, did stop me investing in the victims stories.
The heroine is a lady cop, given the enviable job of running a squad of hot young male detectives, and she gets to know some of them ‘very’ well as they investigate the rapidly increasing number of similar homicides. The author really lets you into the mind of Janice, her frustrations with the case, her desire to do a good job and impress her new bosses and her concern for the victims. Despite being a hard nosed cop, she really cares and does her job to the best of her ability under impossible circumstances.
The only thing that lost this one a star for me was the pace, we seem to have an endless stream of murders with the cops scratching their heads, before everything goes into lighting pace towards the end and you learn what the enigmatic title is referring too. It did keep me guessing for quite a while, but I’m not into spoilers.
Emma Jaye, Goodreads
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