Blurb:
For the Southeast London police squad, it’s rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuos, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry–and the cops don’t even know she exists.
Meanwhile, Inspector Roberts is helpless to stop the explosions and his subordinates aren’t doing much better. Brant is consumed with an even-bigger-than-usual mean streak, and fast-rising Porter Nash finds himself facing serious health problems–everything to do with needles. PC MacDonald is determined to soldier on, whatever the cost, and the career of a new addition to the squad, WPC Andrews, starts spectacularly but with Falls as her mentor she’s not expected to last long. At the top, Superintendent Brown is close to a coronary, and arresting the wrong man in a blaze of publicity is only the beginning of his problems.
If the squad survives this incendiary installment in Ken Bruen’s blazingly intense series, they’ll do so with barely a cop left standing.
Review:
Damn you, Ken Bruen! Why do I keep getting your books? There I was planning to get some writing of my own done, but no — I cracked open this book just to see how it started out and then I was too far in to stop. Worse than crisps. I’m terribly fond of the Jack Taylor books, but I love the part of London this is set in, so I got a kick out of seeing familiar places. It took a bit to keep the characters straight, my only complaint — maybe because I’m always reading things out of order (this is part of Bruen’s London saga), but as usual I was sucked in and flipping pages until I got to the end. And I’ll be back for more, oh don’t you know it. Bruen is one of my favourite drugs.
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A Knife And A Quill- old 
Loved this. Been there, done that with a book.
LOL
I do it with all of his — I have a third to review. Got it, planning to use it as a “reward” for getting some writing done. HA! Opened it, spend the rest of the night reading it. A rare pleasure to do that.
I think I am in trouble huh? OMG these all lok SO GOOD!
Heh heh heh — you are hooked already 🙂
I am doing a shameless thing and tagging his personal and author Facebook page .. I cannot afford the book right now, I wanna read and review. OMG Jack sounds so AWESOME! I love books like this. I have read one book a few years ago and everyone keeps telling me to read them. But MAN oh man ya you are good woman!
LOL, I am friends with him on FB but he seems not to be online much. Don’t forget your local library. I have read a lot of books this year from mine. I have also loaded up my ebook readers, but have sworn not to have as many books as I have had — as I move countries again the end of the month!
Alaska… Library far away, I do not even have a mailbox! Going to town is a pain in the rear and I cannot drive due to eyesight issues, I like reading on my Kindle because I can make the font large. PLUS I have SO many books too, in fact I had to rent a new storage unit for other things so I can keep all my books around me… bad Kriss
Ah, my sympathies! My library is two blocks away: I am spoiled. Galway is a small city and very walkable. I know what you mean about the storage unit. I madly discarded belongings last year; everything reduced to the contents of a 5′ X 15′ storage space. Books are a madness!