Review: A wonderful mafia thriller - the perfect addition to your kindle crime collection!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
In a family full of cops, New York Homicide Detective Hazel Hanson’s blood is as blue as the uniforms they wear.  With a take-no-guff attitude, she rubs elbows with the boys club of the police department, solving murders and putting away criminals.  When a serial killer dubbed ‘The Slitter’ racks up his fourth kill, he finally makes a mistake, leaving a witness and attempted fifth victim alive – though barely.  Enter the FBI, an old love interest, undercover family and ‘The Family’- as in the Italian Mafia, and you have a crime drama sure to please.Fast paced and well-constructed, James Kipling weaves a suspenseful tale that twists and turns.  It explodes onto the page with an almost savage delight using the prologue not only to set up the story, but to lay claim to the first victim we see.  Only a few pages in and the feel of ‘The Slitter’ oozes across, the diabolical enjoyment he takes in torturing his murder victims, the care he takes in his assassinations and the brutal descriptions Kipling employs to pull us in.Fans of mafia thrillers and well written crime fiction should put this new release at the top of your ‘to be read’ pile.  If you are anything like me, you will stay up past your bedtime reading, just to answer the questions that swirl in your head…. “How did she get away?”