CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.
In Hope to Die, top notch crime author David Jackson taunts the readers with a tale of gruesome murders, served with an addictive blend of authentic police procedural and breathtaking insight into the minds of both hunters and hunted.
Mary Cowper is viciously murdered in the grounds of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral on a bitterly cold and snowy winter’s night. The ferocity of the killing using a lump hammer reveals the chilling rage and hatred of the killer.
Put on the case, DS Nathan Cody of Liverpool’s Major Incident Team is stumped as there is no obvious motive at all. Whoever he talks to, the victim seems to be almost angelic.
Cody is still mentally and physically scarred by an undercover mission that went horrifyingly wrong and left his partner dead. The gang was never caught and now Cody is trying his best to hold onto his sanity.
His situation is exacerbated by the return to the team of DC Megan Webley, a former girlfriend who was seriously injured in the foiled mission, and a series of anonymous unnerving silent night time phone calls.
And then the killer strikes again…
The novel is interspersed with the narratives of a young boy. He endures a very grim and anguished upbringing by a strict mother who harps about God. I know that this is our killer but I just couldn’t fit the childhood voice to any of the characters in the novel. The novel touches on the hypocrisy of some so-called devout Christians which resonates with me.