Jonathan Hayes’ thriller Precious Blood [ISBM 978 0 0995 1754 2] is not for the squeamish, and, to be truthful, it’s a little too gruesome for me – and the plot is much too fanciful, though I understand authors try to outdo their predecessors, but this does not make for brilliant reading. So, the plot is much too complex in order to explain the gruesome stuff, the characters pretty weak – and not as bright as you wanted them to be, and the narrative which is quite pacy has to make up for the problems with the other stuff.
Jonathan Hayes’ thriller Precious Blood [ISBM 978 0 0995 1754 2] is not for the squeamish, and, to be truthful, it’s a little too gruesome for me – and the plot is much too fanciful, though I understand authors try to outdo their predecessors, but this does not make for brilliant reading. So, the plot is much too complex in order to explain the gruesome stuff, the characters pretty weak – and not as bright as you wanted them to be, and the narrative which is quite pacy has to make up for the problems with the other stuff.
Edward Jenner, a forensic pathologist who is going through a nervous kind of patch is brought in by the parents of a murdered girl as a second opinion. The body has been marked with a script – as has the seond decapitated body found – and he is not supposed to have anything to do with the others – though he continues to look for clues. A third murder gives him the ideas for motive, though he takes quite a while to get anywhere with it.
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