The gripping new thriller from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author, shortlisted for the Irish Crime Book Awards 2020
Rumours… imagine.
Scandals…
Paige Hargreaves was a young journalist working on a story about a club for the most privileged men in London. She was on the brink of exposing a shocking scandal. Then she disappeared.
Secrets…
DS Maeve Kerrigan must immerse herself in the club’s world of wealth, luxury and ruthless behaviour to find out what happened. But Maeve is keeping secrets of her own. Will she uncover the truth? Or will time run out for Maeve first?
Jane Casey’s best book yet – and that’s really saying something’ Erin Kelly
‘A really gripping, timely plot’ Elly Griffiths
‘Jane Casey is among our very best crime novelists and this is her best book’ Liz Nugent
‘Her best yet. Heartpounding and SO MOVING!’ Marian Keyes
‘Complex and gripping’ The Times
‘Jane Casey is a masterful storyteller’ Charlotte Philby
‘The best police procedurals I’ve read’ Claire Allan
‘A superb crime novel’ Sharon Bolton
‘Truly the gold standard for police procedurals’ Catherine Ryan Howard
‘Terrifying, intense and devastatingly astut’ Sarah Hilary
‘Engrossing crime fiction with heart’ Olivia Kiernan
‘Tense, dramatic and sharply written’ Sinéad Crowley
‘A must read’ Patricia Gibney
‘I ripped through it, unable to stop myself’ Sam Baker
‘Superb’ Will Dean
‘I couldn’t love Maeve Kerrigan or Josh Derwent more’ Cressida McLaughlin
‘Pacy plotting’ Sunday Times Crime Club
‘Chilling and inventive’ Woman’s Weekly
‘Simply stunning’ Heat
‘A chilling read’ Woman
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(AKA) SILENT KILL
DS Maeve Kerrigan and her team are called to investigate when assorted body parts are found. There is no identification, no clues, and this may not even be the original crime scene.
Identifying the victim is almost a story in itself. What Kerrigan discovers is that the victim was a journalist working on exposing a story that would become a shocking scandal. What she has discovered is an exclusive gentleman’s club. The journalist, going undercover, goes missing. Only her bones have been found.
What goes on behind the closed doors of the club is darker than anyone can even imagine. Kerrigan is keeping her own secrets close to the vest.
This crime fiction/police procedural in which the emphasis is on the procedures used by the police in solving the crime. Not for the feint-of-heart, this novel covers the METOO movement, rape, assault, illegal drugs, bribery, blackmail … and multiple murders. It’s a dark and gritty story filled with convoluted dealings. Surprising twists pop up keeping the reader riveted to the pages. The characters are solidly drawn … showing growth and maturity since the first of this series was published. Although 9th in the series, this is easily read as a stand alone.
Many thanks to the author / HarperCollins Pubishing / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
Brilliant! Compelling, real & poignant. Love Maeve & Josh. Why did I devour this so quickly?! How long will I have to wait before the next one?
Jane Casey is the multi award winning author of the superb police procedurals featuring Detective Sergeant Maeve Kerrigan and her boss/colleague Detective Inspector Josh Derwent. “The Cutting Place” is the ninth outing in the popular and absorbing series and my second after recently reading the brilliant “Cruel Acts”.
Although any of these books can be read as a stand-alone, I do believe there’s a special enjoyment of following characters and even though this was only my second visit with Maeve, I truly felt it was like wearing a comfortable slipper, I was so at home with everyone and genuinely felt I knew all the characters personally.
Alongside the police procedural part of the plot, we were privy to very deep personal storylines for both Maeve and Josh and it was this that had my emotions all over the place. Heartbreaking and endearing on many levels, the author did a fabulous job of weaving these into the polished and well executed criminal story involving domestic abuse and the power of men in the upper echelons of a private society. The opening chapter about the mudlarking on the Thames I found fascinating and set the scene for the story perfectly, with a grisly discovery on the banks of the river.
I adore the relationship between Maeve and Josh, which swings between a friendship, work partnership and a possible but highly unlikely love affair. The comaraderie is perfect and the fact that they both respect each other to extreme points, just shows how much effort and thought Jane has endeavoured to include in her characters personas.
Easy to follow, a pleasure to read and very realistic and believable I thoroughly enjoyed “The Cutting Place” from start to finish and felt quite bereft when it came to an end!
An absolute genius of a masterpiece in British crime writing with the added X Factor and a series and author I intend to follow fully. I shall be reading all seven previous books and really can’t wait to get going.
5 exceptional shiny gold stars for this belter of a book.