A review by percyflies
Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner

3.5

I enjoyed this - the ending made me excited to read the final instalment. It's just a solid crime series, with a more thriller edge.

I put this one off for a while because I couldn't really remember much detail of what happened in the first book, but it's following a completely different killer and does a good job or summarising the previous book whenever things from it come up. I really enjoyed the addition of Rainey.

One thing I was confused about was

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the stuff with Sonnet White (the woman with the black cat tattoo). I thought maybe she'd turn out to be the accomplice. Even once it was revealed that it was the receptionist, I thought it could still have been her just with a changed appearance. I guess she was just another victim? Though not sure we got 100% confirmation on that. I definitely could be missing something here though.

Then the other thing that knocked this down was

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the "twist" of there being two killers, when that was also the twist of the first book - although admittedly this was a different dynamic.