Karen Long – Perfect Little Dolls

‘Perfect Little Dolls’ by Karen Long is the second book in the series featuring Detective Eleanor Raven. This book is ok to read as a standalone, but having the first book under your belt first does allow you to understand Eleanor completely, as she isn’t exactly a straight forward character and it does take a little understanding to warm towards her.

This instalment sees an embalmed body being found on a Canadian landfill site, this starts an intense investigation for Eleanor. We see Eleanor still recovering from the major fall out from the first book and she is determined to focus on the case in hand and not the past. The people begin to go missing, the question being, can Eleanor save them before they end up like the body in the landfill? Or will she run out of time?

I enjoyed catching up with Eleanor’s latest story and have to say that her uniqueness as a person does make this series stand out. Her relationships with her work colleagues are at the least prickly and she feels like her work partner is watching every move due to events in the previous book did lead to Eleanor bring put into danger. These situations make for an Eleanor who isolates herself away from her colleagues while they tiptoe around. I was once again back with Eleanor feeling the pressure of the investigation. This killer is revealed early in this story and we have that perspective throughout to give us even more depth to the story, creating a quite different story yet again.

Altogether a great series that has you waiting impatiently for the next, that’s after devouring this book in two sittings of course!

Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for the copy of the book for my review today.