A professional footballer is shot down in the middle of a busy street. Two real estate agents are murdered in a nearby flat. A second footballer is murdered. And yet a third one receives a phone call ... from a woman who has been dead 10 years. Ten years ago, she had been raped and murdered, but never made to pay for his crime. She wants to make him pay .. now.
What he does in order to save his own skin leads to several more murders ... one of them is Jack Garrett's father, a policeman who had accused David Watts of the murder. Jack is determined to find out the truth about what happened .. with the help of DC McGanity.
The book is touted as the first in a series featuring Laura McGanity, but while she is active in this book, it is more the story of Jack Garrett. The reader learns a lot about the relationship between father and son and why there has been a disconnect. And when his father is killed, he becomes a dog with a bone and will not stop until the whole truth is uncovered.
I've been collecting this series for awhile, having never read the author, but the covers and back blurbs had me salivating. I was just a tad disappointed. I like the characters a lot, but McGanity doesn't come across as a homicide detective until late in the book. Jack Garrett is the hero, the one walking into danger, the one who finds the old police reports, the one who connects with sources to find out who said and did what all those years ago.
The ending is absolutely stunning ... never in the world saw it coming. That in itself made the book as good as what I had hoped for.
What he does in order to save his own skin leads to several more murders ... one of them is Jack Garrett's father, a policeman who had accused David Watts of the murder. Jack is determined to find out the truth about what happened .. with the help of DC McGanity.
The book is touted as the first in a series featuring Laura McGanity, but while she is active in this book, it is more the story of Jack Garrett. The reader learns a lot about the relationship between father and son and why there has been a disconnect. And when his father is killed, he becomes a dog with a bone and will not stop until the whole truth is uncovered.
I've been collecting this series for awhile, having never read the author, but the covers and back blurbs had me salivating. I was just a tad disappointed. I like the characters a lot, but McGanity doesn't come across as a homicide detective until late in the book. Jack Garrett is the hero, the one walking into danger, the one who finds the old police reports, the one who connects with sources to find out who said and did what all those years ago.
The ending is absolutely stunning ... never in the world saw it coming. That in itself made the book as good as what I had hoped for.
