Her Last Request by Mari Hannah

 Her Last Request

 by Mari Hannah




Her Last Request by Mari Hannah was published in January 2022 by Orion.

My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to 

Compulsive Readers for inviting me to be a part of #TeamDaniels




Synopsis

A Hidden Clue

A victim leaves a note for the SIO who will investigate her death. This not what DCI Kate Daniels expects to find concealed at a crime scene.

A Desperate Plea

The note contains a last request: 'Find Aaron'. But is Kate searching for a potential second victim, or a killer?

The Countdown is on...

Following the clues, Kate becomes the obsession of her adversary who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Will she find Aaron before he does?


My Review

For all of you who have ben following my reviews for #TeamDaniels, you will know by now that I am a huge fan of this series of Mari Hannah books. Each book has just kept on getting better and better and darker and darker. Her Last Request though has really moved into the spine chilling, making my skin crawl scenario and had me looking over my shoulder to see who is around and watching !!!!

It doesn't make for an easy read, however you cannot put it down as you find yourself being drawn in to what is unravelling in front of your eyes and playing with your mind. The cleverness and ingenuity of the victim in giving kate the clues she needed is murder writing on an incredibly high level.

From the minute you read The Prologue letter you know that the story isn't going to make for easy reading whilst Kate doggedly perseveres in carrying out the victim's last request, whilst trying to catch her killer. There are so many aspects to this story that will leave you feeling uneasy and this is a sign of the high calibre of writer that Mari Hannah is.

it is best that you put a block of time to one side in order to read this as I found it is not a book that you can put down for long as you need to know what is going to happen next........and how.

Yet again another huge 5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 read from the pen of Mari Hannah.

About the Author



Multi-award winning Mari Hannah is the author of the Stone & Oliver crime series, the Ryan & O'Neil series and the DCI Kate Daniels series.

In July 2010, she won a Northern Writers' Award for Settled Blood. In 2013, she won the Polari First Book Prize for her debut, The Murder Wall. She was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library 2017 as the author of the most enjoyed collection of work in libraries. In 2019, she was awarded DIVA Wordsmith of the Year. In that same year, Mari was Programming Chair of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival. In 2020, Mari was named as DIVA 'Wordsmith of the Year' and won Capital Crime's 'Crime Book of the Year' award.

She lives in Northumberland with her partner, a former murder detective.

To find her or see where she's appearing, visit her events page at:

marihannah.com

or follow her on Twitter @mariwriter.

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