This episode has several people and story lines coming together, some good, some not so much. It starts with newspaper journalist Charlotte Grayson being assigned to shadow DCI Kate Summers to report on the daily life of a police officer. Early on, an unknown person is found burned to death in a dilapidated house on the beach. On the wall, the words First To Die were freshly painted, which suggested more victims to come.
An independent film crew has just checked in at Charlotte’s guesthouse – in town to film a documentary on the 25th anniversary of a local teacher, David Brewer, having been burned to death, allegedly by four students. The students made a pact to remain silent about the crime, choosing to be judged as a group. The current crime was a mirror image of the 25-year-old case, the victim had been struck in the head with a hammer, doused with petrol and burned alive. The film crew hoped to solve the old cold case for the police.
A late check-in at the guesthouse was internet sleuth Milo de Vries, with a huge following, who also decided he could do a better job than the police in solving the old case.
Kate had just found out that her father, also a policeman, had some loose connections to the old case, at about the same time he was murdered. His murder had never been solved, and Kate hoped that the pending investigation might shed some light on her father’s death. She asked Charlotte to start checking old file information to see who was working the case. Her first contact with the local history expert turned up only vacant archive files – no news articles to draw from.
Talking with Felicity Brewer, David’s wife, they learned that when the three youngest children had been released from juvenile detention, they were hidden away with new identification for their protection. The fourth, who had just turned 18 at the time of the crime, was tried as an adult, and had been released just two weeks ago. Felicity had been a teacher, but one who was very stiff, prickly, abrupt, and hated the kids involved, as well as the police who had interrogated her at the time. She obviously knew Kate’s father, didn’t think too highly of him, and stated that Kate was just like him.
This is a very busy story, with multiple other story lines involving Charlotte continually having bad luck, with accidents and injuries. But she and Kate were also in the murderer’s cross-hairs, so they were in constant danger from new random arson attempts. Mr. Teague did a great job keeping up the non-stop action, building the suspense, which kept me engrossed, wondering what could go wrong next. As promised, this is a series which is drawing closer to completion, so I was not surprised at the cliff-hanger ending. I intend to stick with it to the end. I was given a BETA copy to read and critique, which I did, but this did not sway me – this review is my honest opinion. I have several of Mr. Teague’s books from other series in my TBR queue that I am eager to read as well.
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