This is the second book in the DI Stacey Collins series, the first being Fallen Angel. It’s a gritty psychological crime thriller set in London against the backdrop of vast crime-ridden housing estates, drug wars and dysfunctional families. Collins herself is a single mother of a teenage daughter as a result of a youthful fling with a boy who’s grown up to be a gang lord, and who is still very much around and determined to be a dad.
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Scent of a Killer; Kevin Lewis
Penguin UK, Rs 299, pp. 464 |
The book opens with her being investigated by her superiors who want to know how close she is to this man, who has been giving her minor tips about the underworld. Collins’s domestic problems are compounded by the hunt for a serial killer who seems to want to do good: at first the murderer only targets former or current paedophiles. However, nothing is as it seems, and Collins is drawn deeper into the net of deceit that the killer weaves around her.
Kevin Lewis knows his craft: the book never flags, and you’ll have no trouble sticking with it till the very last page. He doesn’t waste energy on literary flourishes, but this also means that his prose is sometimes rather flat.
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