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2000s: Waking up in a London hotel room with a strange woman is just the start of a nightmare…
Jigsaw Man
What you need to know before your trail
DI Mark Tartaglia spends a night with a woman he has just met in a west London hotel
The following day he is called back to the very same hotel to investigate a murder. He must have been right there as it happened. And what’s more, he recognises the victim.
Another shock follows when he learns that one of his cases – a body found in a burnt- out car – is actually a body assembled from four different people
Tartaglia is under extreme pressure from all angles to solve the macabre Jigsaw Killer case.
Travel Guide
The very idea that a body can be found in a burnt out car and then turn out to be assembled from four different people is perhaps one of the most macabre murder scenes in crime fiction.
London – The grisly capital
From the setting of a nice swanky London hotel to the underbelly of the city via the painstaking work of the police laboratories, this is a tour around London from every gritty, raw angle.
The streets of the capital are paved with red herrings
Scenes of murder – a burnt-out body in a car which turns out to be that of several victims , pieced together by the so- called Jigsaw killer. Imagine the same streets you walk down – the same Sainsbury’s carpark in Lambeth where you do your shopping. Places very similar to where you go and where you might spend the night – with death so nearby makes for a very chilling atmosphere.
Tartaglia, his ex-partner Sam Donovan, new partner Nick Minderedes and his boss Carolyn Steele have links which slowly reveal themselves. The work of the capital’s police force is dark and complicated.
The small town of Aldford, Cheshire
Some of the police investigation heads a little north to the small town of Aldford where a case could be linked to the ones in London. City cops rush to the scene of this town in Cheshire and investigate the High Street taking care to navigate the traffic of the lunch hour. The use of fire in both cases worries the police.
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