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2000s:Detective Ruby Preston 3. To catch a killer you have to think like one
2000s:Detective Ruby Preston 3. To catch a killer you have to think like one
A killer is playing a twisted game of life or death with his victims. After he captures them, a countdown begins. He marks the time by sending clues to the whereabouts of the women he has taken in three disturbing images: alive, tortured, dead.
In a race against the clock, East London Detective Ruby Preston must play the killer’s terrifying murder game and decipher the clues before more women die.
But this isn’t the first time the police have seen such a sickening crime. The notorious Lonely Hearts Killer, Mason Gatley, was put behind bars ten years ago for murdering six women in exactly the same chilling way. Desperate for more information, Ruby asks her gangster boyfriend, Nathan Crosby, to set up a dangerous meeting to allow her to see into the twisted mind of a murderer.
But the closer Ruby grows to the dark and charming Mason Gatley, the more worried her team becomes. Is he really helping her catch the killer? Or is he lining her up to be his next victim?
Shoreditch is the area for most of the drama which unfolds here. It’s the stomping ground of Detective Ruby Preston and her team who in this instance are determined to keep their patch of London a place of peace and safety. The major landscape of this novel is the internet, and the dark one at that. Social media and emails attract people to hotels, on dates, and so these hotels dotted around the capital become a place of murder.
The hotels are understandably fictional and even if they weren’t imagine the booktrail for that!? Your best bet is to head to Shoreditch and walk te streets as Ruby Preston does. This is her area, her search area for the “Lonely Hearts killer” mark 2. Ruby has gangster connections which allows her to a lot more than most. She gets to see this man- Gatly in prison where they play games to manipulate each other.
Destination: London Author/Guide: Caroline Mitchell Departure Time: 2000
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