It quickly becomes clear that more people will die that the killer believes secrets and lies within relationships should have deadly consequences…īloodstream is the third Liverpool set police procedural by Luca Veste featuring detectives David Murphy and Laura Rossi. A link to a private video on the internet, and the words ‘Nothing stays secret’. Only this time the killer has left a message. Murphy is dismissive, but the media pressure intensifies when another couple is found in the same manner as the first. Tied and bound to chairs facing each other, their violent deaths cause a media scrum to descend on Liverpool, with DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi assigned to the case. Social media stars Chloe Morrison and Joe Hooper seem to have it all – until their bodies are found following an anonymous phone call to their high-profile agent. (With thanks to Salt Publishing for the ARC) With flayed corpses, books covered with human skin, and raging madness, this is definitely worth checking out… The precise Edwardian vocabulary began to assume a more contemporary feel in the wake of Violet’s treatment at the asylum, and this proved an interesting divergence from the general feel of the book. What was interesting, apart from the general darkness and murderous feel of the plot, was the way Thompson circumvented the genre towards the end of the book, through the use of language that her heroine Violet begins to display. Thompson balances the demands of depicting her chosen era with the tropes of the time, thus producing an incredibly authentic piece of writing that taps in perfectly to the psychological condition ‘the mad woman in the attic’ produced by a canon of writers. However, this was a little Gothic inspired piece of perfection, charting the mental degradation experienced by a naïve young woman in Edwardian England. I must admit that the cover alone made me instantly put down the book I was reading and avidly leap on this one. Meanwhile, vulnerable young women are starting to disappear from the same asylum, and then found brutally murdered… Violet becomes obsessed by a book of fairy tales that her husband has locked away in a safe, and as paranoia sets in, she begins to question her own sanity, resulting in her internment in an asylum.
But soon after the birth of her baby the idyll begins to disintegrate. In Edwardian England, Violet has a fairy tale existence: loving husband, beautiful baby son and luxurious home. As promised here is a quick round-up of some of the October reads that I have been unable to post- some good, some indifferent and some disappointing.
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