The One That Got Away by JD Kirk
Genre: Crime / Thriller
BACK OF THE BOOK:
What if your worst enemy was your only hope?
When a fifteen-year-old girl fails to make it home after school, DI Heather Filson believes she’s dealing with just another teenage runaway.
The girl’s grandfather, a notorious Glasgow gangster, disagrees. Convinced one of his underworld enemies has grabbed her, he’s prepared to bathe the city in blood in order to bring his princess home.
But, as the days pass and the evidence mounts, Heather starts to fear that they’re both wrong, and that a brutal killer from the past has returned.
A killer who once stalked the streets of her hometown, preying on vulnerable young victims.
A killer that DI Heather Filson is uniquely familiar with…
REVIEW:
The One That Got Away by JD Kirk is a crime thriller. It is the first book in the DI Heather Filson Series and the twenty-first book in the greater DCI Logan series.is a Young Adult, thriller romance published by Disney Publishing House.
Unlike the DCI Logan books, this book is set on the central west part of Scotland and predominantly around the Kilmarnock area. The story begins following Heather’s disciplinary meeting which has resulted in some big changes in her job role and a new boss. At the same time, a girl has gone missing and many of the signs have a resemblance to something traumatic in Heather’s past. Over the course of the book, we are introduced to new characters as twists and turns lead us to an ending many won’t see coming.
JD Kirk as always has introduced an intriguing character, with an incredible story mixed with humour, though not as much as some of the other books, and a very dark underlying crime that goes to darker places as the book progresses before ending in an astonishing fashion.
I have always been a fan of JD Kirk’s crime novels but hearing some of the feedback for this new entry to the ever-growing world of the DCI Logan series, I was going into it with concerns. The main feedback had always been about people’s dislike for the Heather Filson character although I found during the course of previous Logan books that I quite liked the character and the dynamic she brought to the stories and impact on other characters. Through the book, I can certainly see why some people dislike the character but I actually really enjoyed the character with her mix of dark past and strong-willed determination. I found the story was much darker than some of the recent books the author has written and although it had some moments of humour, it didn’t have me laughing as much as the others in the overall series. This however was not a negative as it allowed the book to stand out from the rest of the series and felt right for the personality of Heather who is quite dark due to her past. This book isn’t as character-heavy as other books in the series and again this was a good thing as it allowed me to focus on learning the depths of the character and the world around her. The stand out for me was the introduction of Ace Wurzel who I hope will become a fixture in future books.
While others seemed to hate this book for me it was a solid book that I loved for very different reasons to the previous ones in the series and is another series I will be continuing with. JD Kirk continues to draw me into the world he is creating and it is a reading treat.
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