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An ancient legend reborn. A killer recreating dark rituals. And a detective racing to break the circle before it’s complete.
When the body of a teenage girl is found posed in the Merry Maidens stone circle, her face coated in clay and ochre, DS Liam Kilshaw is drawn into a case where near-forgotten fictions bleed into brutal fact.
With echoes of an old folktale of dancers turned to stone, the scene is more about staging than superstition. And when two skeletons are unearthed beneath a nearby stone, Kilshaw realises the past is far from dead and buried.
As he hunts for a missing farmhand linked to the girl, more victims surface, each placed with ritual precision in remote ancient sites. With the noose tightening, Kilshaw must decipher centuries-old secrets to break the circle. Because in this deadly game of ancient rites and cold-blooded murder, the killer is saving the most important sacrifice for last.
Review:
This is book 3 of DS Liam Kilshaw series. Brolly once again gives us a tight mystery that seems to not have a solution. The question being, is the girl a sacrifice to some reengineered ancient pagan ritual or was she killed for a very modern reason? When a second body appears with the same markings, the crew has to wonder if it's a serial killer or a ritual killer. As they dig deeper, with outside help, to try to figure out whether it actually is ritual based., they learn more about the legends of the area. But they know they are in a race against time, as the killer obviously has a plan and it involves more sites. A bit of a roller coaster at the end. This one is a good addition to the series and highly recommended, even if you read it as a standalone from the series.
About the Author
Following his law degree, where he developed an interest in criminal law, Matt Brolly completed his Masters in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. He is the Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestselling author of the DI Blackwell novels, the DCI Lambert crime novels, the Lynch and Rose thrillers The Controller and The Railroad, and the standalone thrillers Zero, The Running Girls and The Alliance. His new series isset in Cornwall, featuring DS Kilshaw. Matt lives in London with his wife and their two children. You can find out more about him at www.mattbrolly.com or by following him on X: @MattBrollyUK..
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