The Christmas Killer
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As the snow begins to fall, the body count begins to climb... DI James Walker is ready for a quiet family Christmas in the sleepy village of Kirkby Abbey. But when he opens an early Christmas present left on his doorstep, he soon realises it is no gift. Inside is a gruesome surprise, and a promise - twelve days, twelve murders. Not long after, the first body is found, half frozen in the snow. As the blizzards descend, panic spreads through the remote Cumbrian village - there's a killer amongst them, and with eleven more victims to go, anyone could be next.... Can James stop the killer before they strike again? The first in a new series, Alex Pine has written a dark, atmospheric crime novel, set in a snowed-in Cumbrian village, for fans of Val McDermid, Ross Greenwood and LJ Ross.
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DI James Walker is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2020 with contributions by Alex Pine.
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Ugh, the premise of this sounds so good but the execution was just....okay.
I loved the location of the Lake District and the thought of 12 murders over the 12 days of Christmas sounded exciting and quite unique, but quickly the story becomes a bit flat, the characters boring and the dialogue contrived.
I'm glad I listened to this on audio as I may have given up if I was reading it physically, it's an easy read if a bit forgettable.
You know when you're writing an essay and you need to hit the word count so you add in extra words or go over the same information again and again? This book is like that. Just constantly going over the same information every few chapters until in the end it was hard to tell that you weren't just reading the same chapter over and over again.
No real shocks in this book, I called who the killer was immediately. There is also no real likeable characters in this book... everyone is just bland and boring.
The main things that really started to get on my nerves were the constant use of the name of the village. I think you could fill a good 10% of this book with the words “Kirkby Abbey”. And also the constant explanations about the weather. We get it, it's snowing.
