A Murder of Magpies (The Magpies #2) by Mark Edwards
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Read: 29th June 2018
Purchase: Amazon
★★★★ 4 stars
I'm not sure if I reviewed "The Magpies" and it has been so long since I read it but I know I loved it and it was seriously creepy in parts.
If you haven't read "The Magpies", please do so first! This is a short sequel and to understand the psychology and fear you need to experience it firsthand FIRST!
So Mark Edwards has made us wait some years before giving us a sequel - which I didn't see coming - and after losing everything 5 years before - his house, his wife, his unborn child - Jame Knight fled to the other side of the world to Australia (my country - yay!) where he has buried himself since. He doesn't seem to be doing much except drinking and still slightly obsessing over Lucy Newton and the havoc she and her twisted husband and partner in crime wreaked on him and his wife Kirsty.
Then one day in his new home of Fremantle, Western Australia, he runs into an old friend Brian - who incidentally wrote a book on Jamie and Kirsty's experience though he did change the names. It is then Brian lets slip he still speaks to Kirsty, that she has a daughter, but is no longer with her partner. He gives Jamie her phone number and Jamie toys with idea of phoning her when he gets a plea for help...on a forum dedicated to the Dark Angel murders and that of Lucy Newton. He discovers that Lucy is out of prison and up to her old tricks - torturing people with psychological mind games - as a woman called Anita lives in constant fear of her neighbour and Jamie knows that only he can help! So he jumps on a plane and heads back to England to a remote place called Ludlow in Shropshire. Stupid man.
He and Anita devise a plan to trap Lucy with enough evidence to take to the police and to stop Lucy once and for all.
What happens next I can't begin to describe without spoiling this wonderfully thrilling short read! But I can say you won't be disappointed, as twist after twist unravels with a final one at the end.
TRIGGER WARNING
There are references to spiders and in all their creepiness in this book, so if you are an arachnophobe you may want to skip this book...or those pages at least. You will get a warning when it is about to happen.
If you haven't read "The Magpies", please do so first! This is a short sequel and to understand the psychology and fear you need to experience it firsthand FIRST!
So Mark Edwards has made us wait some years before giving us a sequel - which I didn't see coming - and after losing everything 5 years before - his house, his wife, his unborn child - Jame Knight fled to the other side of the world to Australia (my country - yay!) where he has buried himself since. He doesn't seem to be doing much except drinking and still slightly obsessing over Lucy Newton and the havoc she and her twisted husband and partner in crime wreaked on him and his wife Kirsty.
Then one day in his new home of Fremantle, Western Australia, he runs into an old friend Brian - who incidentally wrote a book on Jamie and Kirsty's experience though he did change the names. It is then Brian lets slip he still speaks to Kirsty, that she has a daughter, but is no longer with her partner. He gives Jamie her phone number and Jamie toys with idea of phoning her when he gets a plea for help...on a forum dedicated to the Dark Angel murders and that of Lucy Newton. He discovers that Lucy is out of prison and up to her old tricks - torturing people with psychological mind games - as a woman called Anita lives in constant fear of her neighbour and Jamie knows that only he can help! So he jumps on a plane and heads back to England to a remote place called Ludlow in Shropshire. Stupid man.
He and Anita devise a plan to trap Lucy with enough evidence to take to the police and to stop Lucy once and for all.
What happens next I can't begin to describe without spoiling this wonderfully thrilling short read! But I can say you won't be disappointed, as twist after twist unravels with a final one at the end.
TRIGGER WARNING
There are references to spiders and in all their creepiness in this book, so if you are an arachnophobe you may want to skip this book...or those pages at least. You will get a warning when it is about to happen.
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