![]() She and her husband’s relationship isn’t great and he’s annoyed by the amount of time she spends at work rather than with him and their baby. The strength of this book for me was its characters. To catch the killer, Henley must confront her own demons - and when Olivier escapes from prison - she finds herself up against not one serial killer, but two. ![]() When a severed head is delivered to Henley's home, she realises that the copycat is taking a personal interest in her and that the victims have not been chosen at random. ![]() Eerie echoes of previous crimes lead Henley to question Peter Olivier, aka The Jigsaw Killer, who is currently serving a life sentence for a series of horrific murders. When body parts are found on the banks of the River Thames in Deptford, DI Anjelica Henley is tasked with finding the killer. Grisly on occasions and Matheson isn’t shy about going into detail about severed body parts and the like, but I’m not very visual so it wasn’t something that would give me nightmares. I don’t like (read or watch ) horror and was worried it might border on that genre, but it was fine. ![]() ![]() “Oh, so it’ll be gruesome,” I thought and prepared myself. The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson has described by many as featuring a murderer to rival everyone’s favourite 1990s serial killer and general-bad-guy Hannibal Lecter. ![]()
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