Evil Impulse by Leigh Russell
Living with her colleague and long time love interest, Detective Inspector Ian Peterson, it seems that Geraldine Steel has finally found happiness. But life is never that simple.
As a psychopath starts killing random women on the streets of York, Geraldine is abducted by a drugs syndicate who have been threatening her sister. Geraldine has everything to fight for, and her life is on the line...
About the author.
Leigh Russell is the author of the internationally bestselling Geraldine Steel series: Cut Short, Road Closed, Dead End, Death Bed, Stop Dead, Fatal Act, Killer Plan, Murder Ring, Deadly Alibi, Class Murder, Death Rope, Rogue Killer, Deathly Affair and Deadly Revenge. The series has sold over a million copies worldwide. Cut Short was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association (CWA) John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award, and Leigh has been longlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. Her books have been #1 on Amazon Kindle and iTunes with Stop Dead and Murder Ring selected as finalists for The People’s Book Prize. Leigh is chair of the CWA’s Debut Dagger Award judging panel and is a Royal Literary Fellow. Leigh studied at the University of Kent, gaining a Masters degree in English and American Literature. She is married with two daughters and a granddaughter, and lives in London.
Review.
This instalment of the Geraldine Steele series is just as good as all the previous ones! It’s well paced, has red herrings and twists galore, keeps your attention and sucks you right into its pages.
We find Geraldine at long last finding a bit of happiness. She has moved in with Ian, her work colleague, and her relationship with her twin sister is back on track. This is the 15th book in the series but you can read it as a stand-alone as all plot lines from previous books are well explained and absorbed. I can’t quite believe we are at 15 books already! Professional wise there has been a body found in the River Ouse and a young run away. Are the two cases interlinked and if so how?
I really did enjoy this outing for Geraldine. Sometimes I was screaming in my head going why are you being so stupid?! By the end of the book I was beginning to give up on her but then twist and it’s all good! Thank god I didn’t need to throw this across the room in disgust. 👍 The setting of York is also something that I enjoy as I have spent many a Saturday afternoon traipsing round the cobbled streets and shops. It makes visualising the plot so much easier when you can see in your head why that location etc was used.
This is a series that I thoroughly recommend and this outing was great! I hope you give it a try.
