‘The Patient Man’ is the sixth book in the Detective Inspector Rowan Jackman and Detective Superintendent Marie Evans series set in the fictional place called Saltern-le-Fen. As with the majority of Joy’s books, it is possible to be read as a standalone but be prepared to start buying the back catalogue if you do as by the time you have read this you will want to know everything!

D.I. Jackman’s “favourite” serial killer Alistair Ashcroft returns in this particular instalment and soon starts wreaking vengeance by using the innocent villagers to taunt Jackman. Alongside this there is also a number of thefts and minor crimes that need to be dealt with. The strangest theft of all being a rifle. The question is what links it all together?

A skillfully written story, as always by Joy. That weaves a serial killer with a police procedural and makes for an action-packed book that is thrilling enough to make me not want to put it down. With thanks to Joffe Books and Joy Ellis for the copy of the book in order to take part in this brilliant blog tour