Today I am really pleased to be a part of the blog tour for The Fire Killer by Ross Greenwood. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Boldwood Books for my copy of the book.
When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it’s either children fooling around or a worrying racially motivated crime.
As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar blazes spread out over many years, all within a close area. And after an idea is suggested by pathologist Mortis, Barton suspects he has the arsonist’s motives wrong.
When a night worker comes forward with a tip, Barton narrows down the suspects. Yet all of them act suspiciously and he knows for sure that one or more of them are lying. And when a huge house blaze shocks everyone, Barton fears the killer has lost all control.
Who is The Fire Killer? What will be next to burn?
Ross Greenwood has to be amongst my favourite authors. Every single book he writes is always superb, whether it be a DI Barton book or one of his others based on his prison work. The Fire Killer is the fifth book in the DI Barton series and still as brilliant as the rest of the series.
We are back with DI Barton, and, he has no idea just how big the investigation will get when he is called out to a fire in a skip. A body is discovered in the skip, a young woman. Was this an accident or murder? Who is the young woman, with such little to go on, will they be able to identify her?
The story is told from the perspectives of the police and from the person who started the fire. This does ramp the tension and intrigue up so much as we are given the perspective of the fire starter but not the identity. As the investigations go on Barton discovers a history of similar fires in the area over many years.
DI Barton is a copper who is different to the usual coppers that I would usually read about. I do love how the author integrates Bartons’ home life into each of the books. He is more of a ‘normal’ copper and I do like that.
There isn’t just the fire killer case going on, as always there is another disturbing story that involves drugs. As Ross Greenwood always does he has seamlessly spun these threads into one excellently woven web of a story that has no lack of twists, turns and suspense.
It is a disturbing, dark read at times that does conclude in a way that no one escapes from. There is also a lot of dark humour running through it as well. One thing I can appreciate is dark humour, not too sure what that says about me though! I enjoyed guessing, wrongly, who the fire killer was. It truly threw me when I got to find out. Another excellent instalment that I recommend everybody should read.
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Ross Greenwood is the bestselling author of ten crime thrillers. Before becoming a full-time writer he was most recently a prison officer and so worked everyday with murderers, rapists and thieves for four years. He lives in Peterborough.
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