Title: The Death Sculptor

Author: Chris Carter

Genre: Crime/Thriller

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Rating: 4/5

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Summary:

‘Good job you didn’t turn on the lights . . .’ 

A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholson, brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless – Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter of the Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division is the calling card the killer left behind.

For Hunter, there is no doubt that the killer is trying to communicate with the police, but the method is unlike anything he’s ever seen before. And what could the hidden message be?

Just as Hunter and his partner Garcia reckon they’ve found a lead, a new body is found – and a new calling card. But with no apparent link between the first and second victims, all the progress they’ve made so far goes out of the window.

Pushed into an uncomfortable alliance with confident investigator Alice Beaumont, Hunter must race to put together the pieces of the puzzle . . . before the Death Sculptor puts the final touches to his masterpiece.

Review:

This is the fourth book in the Robert Hunter series and we are back with Hunter and Garcia for another gruesome and propulsive read. The Death Sculptor features yet another twisted and extremely sinister killer with a strange and macabre sense of artistic creativity displayed in the horrifying calling card left at the scene of the crime.

As with all of Carter’s books that I’ve read, The Death Sculptor is very addictive, and it’s easy to read on far longer than you intended to because of the short and snappy chapters. The end reveal in this one definitely surprised me, I won’t say more for fear of giving anything away, but it was out of left field which I enjoyed. I also enjoyed seeing the investigator Alice Beaumont involved in the investigation and as usual, I like the partnership between Hunter and Garcia. All in all, The Death Sculptor is another brutal, entertaining and twisted page turner in this Los Angeles crime series.

★★★★ 

Huge thanks to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for having me on this Blogathon. My review is entirely my own honest opinion.

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