Halloween is coming soon, bringing with it trick or treat time. So treat yourself to Living Death which is another in the Katie Maguire crime series. It’ll scare you, see if it doesn’t. Of if not scare, perhaps intrigue you, and get your pulses racing.

 

I do like Masterton’s writing. It is crisp, confident, and zaps along with satisfying clarity. His plotting is meticulous and exciting from the moment a girl with green hair stumbles out of a club and we just know she’s in jeopardy.

 

DS Katie Maguire and her team are up to their neck investigating dognappers (as a dog owner, how dare they?) drug trading and now a missing girl.

 

Masterton weaves his web with his usual touch. He really thinks through his characters and plot. Will the green haired girl be saved? Or not.

 

Graham Masterton is a bestselling author who spent twenty or so years writing horror and thrillers before turning to crime. I’m glad he did. I don’t like horror – I’m a hide behind the sofa kind of girl when there’s anything like that going on, and crime is more painstaking than thrillers or so I feel. Probably wrong, but there you go.

 

I enjoyed Living Death. I think you will too.

 

Living Death     Graham Masterton.   Pub. Head of Zeus.   £18.99