Will Carver – Psychopaths Anonymous

The Fourth Detective Pace book in the series, but as it is part of a Will Carver series it can be read before or after the other books. This series is second to none for me. Will Carver is most definitely a master of his craft. I always tend to be unable to find the words to fully convey the absolute brilliance that is a Will Carver book.

This particular story brings us Maeve, a woman who has been part of another Will Carver book, Good Samaritans. If you have read that one you will have an idea of her odd way of looking at life. If not well – welcome to Maeve’s world! She isn’t your boring run of the mill woman and I do worry about the state of Will Carver’s brain at times…reading his books, I mean, we have had one that was narrated by Evil himself. Maeve tops that though. A character that you would think you would hate as she is so horrible. This woman is a killer and an alcoholic, to put it mildly. You just can’t help turning the pages to see what Maeve’s next move will be. It’s like having a dirty Little Secret…following this woman and hanging back to see what her twisted mind will bring next!

Maeve decides to set up a Psychopaths Anonymous group after attending Alcoholics Anonymous (and every other group she can find). Yes, this is how twisted Maeve is. She wants her own little group and she is willing to go that far to create it too. I am not going to give you too much about the story- suffice to say you can find that out for yourself.

Such a gore fest with Maeve but so funny too, okay, darkly funny but oh, I enjoyed the humour. Just the way Maeve’s internal dialogue goes was enough for me. I do love how Will Carver has other characters from different books popping in as well. Psychopaths Anonymous is a gruesome and gripping story that I would say, if you love a book that makes you laugh, cringe and shake your head…all in one chapter, go and check out Will Carver.

Thank you to Anne Cater and Orenda Books for allowing me to be part of this tour and for my gifted copy of the book.