WHEN DARKNESS CALLS
Do you dare to look into the eye of a serial killer...? Holly Wakefield works for the NHS as a criminal psychologist specialising in serial killers. She has particular reason to be good at her job - but she keeps that to herself. When DI Bishop from the Met Police approaches Holly to investigate a recent killing, Holly is horrified by the dismembered bodies and the way they have been theatrically positioned. More shocking still is when the pathologist reveals this is not the first time she has seen these mutilations. It means a serial killer is out there, and they're going to kill again - soon. Holly is used to chasing serial killers. But this killer has something in common with Holly that she's kept hidden for as long as she can remember. And for the first time since she was a child, Holly is forced to face the darkness of her past... When Darkness Calls is a gritty, gripping and brilliantly twisty serial killer thriller and introduces Holly Wakefield as one of the most complex and interesting heroines of our time. |
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"WHEN DARKNESS CALLS
by Mark Griffin (Piatkus £13.99, 400 pp)
Griffin, who appeared as Trojan in ITV’s Gladiators in the Nineties, became a successful screenwriter in LA before returning to England.
This is his crime debut, and it is mightily impressive. It introduces Holly Wakefield, a NHS criminal psychologist who specialises in the analysis and treatment of serial killers.
She is approached by the Metropolitan Police’s DI Bishop to investigate a killer whose modus operandi is to pose the victims’ dismembered bodies in theatrical positions.
Deviously plotted, with a bleak thread of intriguing twists, it reveals that Holly has much more experience in matters of murder than may meet the eye. Her partnership with Bishop is deftly portrayed, and she’s a character we are destined to hear far more of.
Not surprisingly from a screenwriter, it has all the makings of a TV series — think Cracker but with a sympathetic, if troubled, female protagonist." -Geoffrey Wansell -Daily Mail