Hope To Die by David Jackson

Series: DS Nathan Cody Book #2
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher Bonnier Zaffre for the ebook ARC of Hope to Die by David Jackson.

Mary Cowper (42) was walking her dog through a churchyard of Liverpool Cathedral on a snowy evening in December. Someone comes up and kills Mary very brutally.
Detective Sergeant Nathan Cody of the Major Incident Team is put on the case. Whichever way Detective Cody turns, Mary seems to be perfect, no one has a bad word to say about her, especially not motive for this very brutal murder.
Then Cassie Harris (28) is found murdered in the same style as Mary.
Nathan seems to have things going on with himself as well. Ghosts of his pasts have been haunting him. He keeps getting mysterious phone calls at night, where the person on the other end of the line says nothing.
Will they be able to catch the killer before someone else gets murdered?

I did not read the first book in the series, A Tapping At My Door. I give this book a rating of 3 stars. I think this book had enough detailed information from the first book that I was still able to understand what was going on in this book. This book was not as fast paced, as I would have liked it to be. It took me to read about half of the novel to actually get into the book. I didn’t really like the writing style of this book. It turned out to be a very good book though, and it is worth reading.