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Cold Kill
by
David Lawrence
It is part of the DS Stella Mooney #3 series and is a detective mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Minotaur Books on May 30, 2006 and has 448 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Dead Sit Round in a Ring, Down into Darkness
Third in the DS Stella Mooney detective mystery series set in modern-day London, Notting Hill to be precise.
My Take
Cold Kill demonstrates a sick mind! How Lawrence comes up with such nasty characters??! Oh, wait, they’re everywhere aren’t they? Still, coming up with Kimber’s physical display of his obsessions…ick…Lawrence has got one imagination!
Mooney is investigating what appears to be a serial killer targeting young women but there are enough similarities AND differences that it just doesn’t make sense. Then Robert Kimber walks into the station house to confess but his confession doesn’t quite make sense either.
Lots of dramas between Kimber’s fantasy/reality and his obsession with DS Stella Mooney; Mooney’s dithering between Delaney, George, and the flat in Vigo — and doesn’t that just catch her on the hop!; Delaney’s investigation of the plight of the homeless at Christmas; Tom Davison and the silky, black thong; the developing relationship between Mooney and Anne Beaumont…and Maxine and Jan; Pete Harriman’s womanizing; and, all the red herrings which Lawrence drags across our path.
The revelations just keep coming the further we read as subplot after subplot untwists its nasty selves.
Down into Darkness is next in the series.
