Hello chè zanmi,
The Fifth to Die by J.D Barker, is my first crime fiction book of the 2019. It was a good one to start my crime fiction year with.
Chicago is having one of the worst winters it has had in years.
A family decided to see if the lake is frozen enough to skate on. They get a surprise of a life time, when the body of missing teenager is seen under the ice. Ella has been missing for 3 weeks, the lake froze over at the beginning go winter 3 months ago. How did her body get stuck under the ice?
Detective Sam Porter and his team are brought into investigate when the missing teenager case becomes a homicide investigation. When another teenage girl goes missing the press go into uproar. Could the escape serial killer Anson Bishop be behind these murders too? Porter doesn’t think so, he thinks Chicago has become the hunting ground for another killer.
Even when Porter is trying to focus on this case his mind is still preoccupied with Bishop. It doesn’t matter that the FBI have taken the Anson Bishop investigation off him, he can’t let go. When he receives a note from Bishop, Porter decided that he most take this lead a run with it. With or without the help of a badge. This path will lead him down the road to Bishop mother, the women that help Anson become the man he is today.
The Fifth to Die, jumps right into the action and doesn’t stop. If you could lose weight from imagination action I would now be skinny.
The Fifth to die is fast paced with several great twists and turns. Each chapter heading tells you the perspective you are about to read. This did help with the pace as you are seeing the story unfold from the different sides. The story is beautiful weaved, storyline connect in way you don’t expect but make perfect sense in the end.
I haven’t read the first book in the series The Fourth Monkey yet, but the Fifth to Die did explain certain things so you understand the history between Porter and Bishop. Although I wish I had read The Fourth Monkey first as I think it would have added more context. Also The Fourth Monkey sounds like a really good book.
Holy Hell the ending, seriously you leaving it like that. It’s a cliffhanger and a half. I just signed up to J.D Barker email subscription so I don’t miss out hearing when the next book is out.
I want to say more about the book and character but feel like I might let something slip, and I don’t want that to happen. One of my favourite element were all the twist and I don’t want to spoil that for anyone else. All I can say if you like authors like Jeffery Denver, James Patterson, Lee Childs to name a few I would advise reading J.D Barker books.
My rating for The Fifth to Die is 4.8 out of 5.
Thank you to HQ for sending me a copy of The Fifth to die for a fair and honest review.
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Gem x
