Book Review: What Doesn't Kill You by Ed James

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: What Doesn't Kill You

Subtitle: (DI Fenchurch #3)

Author: Ed James

Genre: Crime Fiction

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 3

Best read after earlier books in series? Yes, but can be read as stand-alone.

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32598580-what-doesn-t-kill-you

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

DI Fenchurch again needs to find the murderer of a young woman. This time, a young lawyer is murdered and he discovers a web of deceit and racketeering. He also comes close to finding out what happened to his daughter.

What I liked about the book:

The book is suspenseful with many twists and turns. A real page-turner.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I really loved the book.

My favourite bits in the book:

Where DI Fenchurch gets closer to the truth.

My least favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the third in a series and I would love to grab the next in the series.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a great crime novel. It is a real page-turner and action-packed.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Maybe
Adult	Yes

 

If you like murder mysteries full of suspense, this may be the book for you.

I’m certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

The body of a young City lawyer is discovered on an East London building site, assaulted and brutally murdered. Initial enquiries lead DI Simon Fenchurch to a driver employed by Travis, a controversial new app-based cab company. Within days another woman - a Travis driver - is found murdered.

 

As the body count goes up, DI Fenchurch and his colleagues on the East London Major Investigation Team delve into the crimes and unveil a murky conspiracy that some will do anything to keep hidden.

 

When familiar faces begin to emerge from the shadows, Fenchurch realises this case is more personal than he’d thought. Could he finally be on the brink of solving the mystery that has dogged him for over a decade: who abducted his daughter, Chloe - and where is she now?.

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Book Review: Worth Killing For by Ed James

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: Worth Killing For

Subtitle: (DI Fenchurch #2)

Author: Ed James

Genre: Crime Fiction

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 2

Best read after earlier books in series? Yes, but can be read as stand-alone

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30320413-worth-killing-for

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

DI Fenchurch is out with his wife when they witness the murder of a young woman. He chases the attacker and arrests him. But has he got the right man? And why was she murdered?

What I liked about the book:

The book is suspenseful with many twists and turns. A real page-turner.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I really loved the book.

My favourite bits in the book:

Where DI Fenchurch gets closer to the truth.

My least favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the second in a series and I couldn’t stop myself from reading more after this one.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a great crime novel. It is a real page-turner and action-packed.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Maybe
Adult	Yes

 

If you like murder mysteries full of suspense, this may be the book for you.

I’m certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

On a busy London street, a young woman is attacked in broad daylight and left bleeding to death on the pavement. Among the eyewitnesses are DI Simon Fenchurch and his wife.

 

Fenchurch pursues the attacker through a warren of backstreets and eventually arrests a young hoodie with a cache of stolen phones - an ‘Apple picker’ on the make. The case should be closed but something feels off ... Was this really just about a smartphone? Why did the victim look nervous before she was targeted? And why don’t the prints on the murder weapon match the young man in custody?

 

Before Fenchurch can probe further, his superiors remove him from the case, convinced he has let the real culprit run free. But Fenchurch is determined to get to the truth and, before long, uncovers a conspiracy that reaches high above the street gangs of London.

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Book Review: The Hope That Kills by Ed James

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: The Hope That Kills

Subtitle: (DI Fenchurch #1)

Author: Ed James

Genre: Crime Fiction

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 1

Best read after earlier books in series?

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29343597-the-hope-that-kills

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

DI Fenchurch is tasked with solving the mystery about young women ending up dead with their throats slashed. They are all older teenagers who appear to work in the sex trade. Why were they targeted and who are they?

What I liked about the book:

The book is suspenseful with many twists and turns. A real page-turner.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I really loved the book.

My favourite bits in the book:

Where DI Fenchurch gets closer to the truth.

My least favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the first in a series and I couldn’t stop myself from reading a few more after this one.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a great crime novel. It is a real page-turner and action-packed.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Maybe
Adult	Yes

 

If you like murder mysteries full of suspense, this may be the book for you.

I’m certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

The body of a young woman is found on the streets of East London, in the shadow of the City’s gleaming towers. No ID on her, just hard-earned cash. But there is no doubting the ferocity of the attack.

 

DI Simon Fenchurch takes charge but, as his team tries to identify her and piece together her murder, they’re faced with cruel indifference at every turn - nobody cares about yet another dead prostitute. To Fenchurch, however, she could just as easily be Chloe, his daughter still missing after ten years, whose memory still haunts his days and nights, his burning obsession having killed his marriage.

 

When a second body is discovered, Fenchurch must peel back the grimy layers shrouding the London sex trade, confronting his own traumatic past while racing to undo a scheme larger, more complex and more evil than anything he could possibly have imagined.

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