Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC of A Soul for a Soul in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: February 20, 2024
Summary:
The syndicate have taken everything from her. It’s time to take them down—or die trying.
DCI Kate Young never meant to shoot Superintendent John Dickson at the reservoir that night—even if, as a scheming corrupt cop and head of the shady syndicate, he probably had it coming. But now Kate has photographic evidence that someone else knows her terrible secret…
Tormented by guilt and the voices of the dead, Kate is desperate to unmask the rest of the corrupt officers before her own sins catch up with her. When DI Harriet Khatri, awaiting trial for the murder of Kate’s mentor, claims she was framed by Dickson’s syndicate, Kate reluctantly agrees to help in the hope of finding answers.
Meanwhile, DI Emma Donaldson finds herself on the hunt for a double murderer—a man who incapacitates his victims with a powerful narcotic called Devil’s Breath. Desperate to measure up to her role-model boss, Emma finds herself hurled into the deep end in more ways than one…
While Kate’s grip on reality wavers and the syndicate closes in, and with the mystery killer taking a special interest in Emma, could this be the case that defeats both detectives?
My thoughts:
Carol Wyer is one of my favorite crime fiction writers and I really enjoy this series. This is the fifth book in her Detective Kate Young series. She has this knack for creating such unique, leading female characters and I am totally for it!
As I’ve said all along in my reviews of the previous books in this series, I really do feel you need to read these books in order. So much ties in from the previous books and while the author does a good job providing some backstory, I think too much would be lost if you haven’t started from the beginning.
Picking up from where things ended in the last book, we find Kate now a DCI and while that means she’s not as involved in the day-to-day operation of cases, that isn’t going to stop her from her main mission of taking down the syndicate. When she hears from Harriet, who is on trial for murdering her close friend William, that she is being framed, she is torn on whether to believe her or not.
With Kate being promoted, that means someone needed to take her old role and we see Emma Donaldson rise to the task. I have loved Emma since we first met her and she seems to be just as driven and task-oriented as Kate when it comes to solving cases. I also felt for her as she tried to balance her new role with her new relationship.
I loved the twists and turns this book took. As I have come to expect with this author, no character is safe, including ones you’ve come to care about and so when certain people are revealed to be involved in the syndicate, I’ve learned not to really be surprised. Shocked maybe, but not so surprised.
I really enjoyed this latest installment and loved that things were left a bit open-ended. Does that mean there is more to come? I sure hope so as I’m not quite ready to say goodbye to Kate and the team just yet!
Audio thoughts:
I was thrilled to see that Henrietta Meire was back to narrate this book. I love when there is consistency of narrators in a series and she has so far been the narrator for this entire series. Her voices and pacing are just right and I feel this book just lends itself to audio. I do hope she will stick around for the rest of the series…I love when it’s the same narrator all the way through!
Books in this series:
- An Eye for the Eye
- A Cut for a Cut
- A Life for a Life
- A Truth for a Truth
- A Soul for a Soul
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