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Title number five in the acclaimed DCI Tom Caton Manchester Crime thriller series. When the body of the first victim is discovered at the Cutacre Open Cast Mine it looks like an open and shut case. Until the the second is discovered, and then a third. As the victims, and the suspects, begin to multiply, Caton is confronted by an unexpected complication in his private life. As he hurtles towards the solution he finds himself faced with an impossible choice, and an implacable enemy.
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12 primary booksDCI Tom Caton Manchester is a 12-book series with 12 released primary works first released in 1974 with contributions by Bill Rogers and Judy Blume.
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This is the fifth book in the series that I have read and the editing of the Kindle version has got no better. In addition to the dreadful punctuation, spelling mistakes and words in a sentence in the wrong order, there are factual errors (the Zodiac Killer operated in Northern California not North Carolina).
However, what spoiled the book for me was the glaring inaccuracies towards the end when Caton worked out where DS Stuart was being held (Loc 5545 on the Kindle). It was Caton who studied the prints in the reception at the Oasis. Sally Roper at the Oasis who gave the explanation of the location (2880). Joanne never wore a wire at the Oasis. Stone had never met Stuart at the Oasis. So the whole premise is fundamentally flawed.
Other than this substantial error the story was very good and I will continue with book 6 in the series.