Kerry Hood
Kerry Hood has worked in publishing for many years and lived in London for just as many, but suspects her heart is in the country.
Books reviewed by Kerry Hood
The Jigsaw Man
A PTSD-ridden police inspector is back on duty when body parts are discovered, distributed across her patch. This takes her back to the horror of dealing with a serial killer nicknamed the Jigsaw Man. This time, however, she doesn’t know if she can cope with the horror of it again.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Kerry Hood
Missing
Two sisters reunite to sort out their mother’s legacy - and her death. They couldn’t be more different, and as they discover more about their parent, it’s not clear whether they’ll be drawn together or pushed further apart. Then a police investigation into a cold case murder complicates things further.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Kerry Hood
Prayer
When three cases a lapsed Catholic FBI agent is working on collide – the explosive intentions of a domestic terrorist cell, and two cases of unexplained serial murder – religion seems to be behind them all.
Reviewed on 19 February 2022 by Kerry Hood
The Ice Coven
A man and a woman go missing in Finland. Small clues, painstaking work and huge discoveries drop the Violent Crimes Unit of the Helsinki police department into a world of pain and depravity.
Reviewed on 22 January 2022 by Kerry Hood
The Unwilling
Jason French is home from the Vietnam war and from prison. When a girl he has been seen with is found dead, it is obvious who will be blamed, but it’s less obvious who will try to prove him innocent.
Reviewed on 27 November 2021 by Kerry Hood
The Guest House
A single mother running some rooms to let becomes unwittingly involved with local – and not so local – gangsters, shattering her fragile peace in the remote Scottish Highlands.
Reviewed on 23 October 2021 by Kerry Hood
The Moon Tunnel
A body is found in one of the escape tunnels dug by POWs held in a World War Two camp in Cambridgeshire’s fenlands. Journalist Philip Dryden is drawn inescapably to the case when it is revealed that the man discovered in the collapsed tunnel is on the way into, not out of, the compound.
Reviewed on 25 September 2021 by Kerry Hood
Right To Kill
DS Joe Romano is back in Leeds after an unsuccessful sojurn in France for Interpol. Now working in Missing Persons, and feeling dulled by life, he is given a case that will test his humanity as well as his detective powers – and his heart.
Reviewed on 21 August 2021 by Kerry Hood
The Trawlerman
DS Alex Cupidi is on gardening leave, suffering from PTSD and panic attacks, an unwilling attendee at therapy sessions. When a couple are killed in a seemingly random and meaningless attack, the tangled case might just be a step too far for all those involved.
Reviewed on 24 July 2021 by Kerry Hood
Cages
A single mother on the run, escaping her traumatic past with her son, has found a place as a guard in one of Britain’s northern prisons, where she seems settled at last. But all this is turned on its head by a highly intelligent villain with escape on his mind.
Reviewed on 25 June 2021 by Kerry Hood