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DI Jack MacIntosh #4
Twenty Years Buried
Please note this is a revised version of the book that was previously published as Hangman’s End.
An absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist.
The call comes in the early hours. Human remains have been discovered in a suitcase, dumped on the muddy banks of the River Thames. Detective Jack MacIntosh races to the scene.
The suitcase contains a human torso, two arms and two legs. It’s the body of a young girl. But where is her head?
Then a skull is found embedded in the silt of the riverbed. But it doesn’t belong to the body in the case.
As the river offers up more of its gruesome secrets, Jack uncovers a tangled web of shocking secrets stretching back twenty years.
An absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist.
The call comes in the early hours. Human remains have been discovered in a suitcase, dumped on the muddy banks of the River Thames. Detective Jack MacIntosh races to the scene.
The suitcase contains a human torso, two arms and two legs. It’s the body of a young girl. But where is her head?
Then a skull is found embedded in the silt of the riverbed. But it doesn’t belong to the body in the case.
As the river offers up more of its gruesome secrets, Jack uncovers a tangled web of shocking secrets stretching back twenty years.
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First published January 10, 2022
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January 26, 2022
This is the fifth book in the DI Jack Macintosh series , it can be read as a standalone but.... I will definitely be getting the previous books after reading this one! You can tell how well the author knows the law side of the story (she did practice law for 10years after all !) But it shines through and makes the story stand out in your mind and makes it more realistic.... even if some parts you wish weren't!
The books draws you in straight away with the innocence of the dog walker then the chaos and investigating than ensures, it is action packed with twists and turns that you didn't expect. The characters in the book are described perfectly, even if you don't like all the characters they all brings so much to the book , and the fact you end up disliking a certain character means they have created the character exactly how it is meant to be.
The book does flow easily throughout , don't let the length of the book (409 pages) put you off as you will gallop through it , you will be taken on the investigation with the detectives, it hooked you from the start and keeps you there until the very last word!
The books draws you in straight away with the innocence of the dog walker then the chaos and investigating than ensures, it is action packed with twists and turns that you didn't expect. The characters in the book are described perfectly, even if you don't like all the characters they all brings so much to the book , and the fact you end up disliking a certain character means they have created the character exactly how it is meant to be.
The book does flow easily throughout , don't let the length of the book (409 pages) put you off as you will gallop through it , you will be taken on the investigation with the detectives, it hooked you from the start and keeps you there until the very last word!
January 27, 2022
Book 5 in the DI Jack MacIntosh series, this was the first in this series that I had read, and I found it worked well as a stand-alone mystery. (A few blanks, though, would definitely have been filled in more fully with a reading of the entire series).
When we meet Jack in this edition, he is somewhat of an enigma - unmarried, forty-seven years old, with a “kind, if slightly careworn and tired face” . Jack, a hard-working and dedicated cop, is haunted by an unresolved case staining his career, as well as the tragic childhood loss of his mother. It’s hard to get to know Jack - and he likes it that way.
With an extensive cast of characters to support him, Jack’s supporting team of “regulars” is well-drawn and complex - spanning his colleagues in policing and CSI, a forensic psychologist, the cold case unit, as well as a doggedly nasty reporter for the Daily Mail.
In this edition, Jack and his team have their hands full, professionally, with a grisly discovery under the London Bridge that soon escalates into what appears to be a series of horrific murders, twenty years apart (one disturbingly involving an eight year old child).
As the plot deepens and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, links to an ancient botched child murderer case appear to surface, and Jack finds himself facing the raw and rough of his internal demons, channeled unflinchingly into his drive to correct and convict a killer long overdue for justice.
To make things even more interesting, a long-running backstory involving Jack and his brother Stuart (known as “Mac”), as well as Mac’s fiancé, Isabel, along with a recurring plot line involving a mysterious “arch-enemy”, interweaves the story, providing additional texture to the highly charged world Jack inhabits as it unfolds across the series.
A dark and intricately plotted mystery, layered with regular characters who will likely become even more interesting with more books over time, this book is a treat for British crime lovers everywhere.
A great big thank you to the author and the publisher for an ARC of this book. All thoughts
When we meet Jack in this edition, he is somewhat of an enigma - unmarried, forty-seven years old, with a “kind, if slightly careworn and tired face” . Jack, a hard-working and dedicated cop, is haunted by an unresolved case staining his career, as well as the tragic childhood loss of his mother. It’s hard to get to know Jack - and he likes it that way.
With an extensive cast of characters to support him, Jack’s supporting team of “regulars” is well-drawn and complex - spanning his colleagues in policing and CSI, a forensic psychologist, the cold case unit, as well as a doggedly nasty reporter for the Daily Mail.
In this edition, Jack and his team have their hands full, professionally, with a grisly discovery under the London Bridge that soon escalates into what appears to be a series of horrific murders, twenty years apart (one disturbingly involving an eight year old child).
As the plot deepens and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, links to an ancient botched child murderer case appear to surface, and Jack finds himself facing the raw and rough of his internal demons, channeled unflinchingly into his drive to correct and convict a killer long overdue for justice.
To make things even more interesting, a long-running backstory involving Jack and his brother Stuart (known as “Mac”), as well as Mac’s fiancé, Isabel, along with a recurring plot line involving a mysterious “arch-enemy”, interweaves the story, providing additional texture to the highly charged world Jack inhabits as it unfolds across the series.
A dark and intricately plotted mystery, layered with regular characters who will likely become even more interesting with more books over time, this book is a treat for British crime lovers everywhere.
A great big thank you to the author and the publisher for an ARC of this book. All thoughts
January 28, 2022
Hangman's end by Michelle Kidd.
DI Jack MacIntosh Book 5.
Two bodies.
One bridge.
Twenty years apart.
The discovery of two bodies beneath London Bridge plunges DI Jack MacIntosh and his team at the Metropolitan Police into two of the most complex investigations they’ve ever had to deal with. With two decades separating them, can the cases really be linked? Having an intense dislike for coincidences, Jack can’t let it go. And when evidence then emerges pointing to a 1989 cold case, Jack is transported back in time to a miscarriage of justice that has haunted him for quarter of a century – and back to a little girl he vowed never to forget. As two cases turn into three, becoming more and more entwined, will the river finally give up its secrets?
Maybe.
Because sometimes the dead can speak.
I really really enjoyed this book. Jack was my favourite. This is the first book I've read in the series but I've been able to read it. I will certainly be looking at the others in this series. 5*.
DI Jack MacIntosh Book 5.
Two bodies.
One bridge.
Twenty years apart.
The discovery of two bodies beneath London Bridge plunges DI Jack MacIntosh and his team at the Metropolitan Police into two of the most complex investigations they’ve ever had to deal with. With two decades separating them, can the cases really be linked? Having an intense dislike for coincidences, Jack can’t let it go. And when evidence then emerges pointing to a 1989 cold case, Jack is transported back in time to a miscarriage of justice that has haunted him for quarter of a century – and back to a little girl he vowed never to forget. As two cases turn into three, becoming more and more entwined, will the river finally give up its secrets?
Maybe.
Because sometimes the dead can speak.
I really really enjoyed this book. Jack was my favourite. This is the first book I've read in the series but I've been able to read it. I will certainly be looking at the others in this series. 5*.
January 23, 2022
Where would crime-writers be without dog-walkers? Michelle Kidd’s latest novel begins with this most reliable of tropes when a dog sniffs out a suitcase in the low tide mud beneath a bridge over the River Thames. The contents are not for the squeamish. Inside is the torso, arms and legs of a little girl. The head is elsewhere. DI Jack MacIntosh and his team are soon on the case, but there investigations of the crime scene are hindered by the rising tide of Old Father Thames.
We have the advantage over the police in that we are introduced early on to the man who dropped the suitcase from the bridge into the mud. We are not sure if he is the actual slaughterman, or merely the butcher, but we do learn the whereabouts of the child’s head. The victim is soon identified as Maisie Lancaster, but a visit to her parents’ house brings MacIntosh into a collision with the metaphorical runaway car of one of his previous cases.
“Previous” is the key word here, as Michelle Kidd delicately negotiates the problems of having a main character with a troubled past, with the events having occurred earlier in the series. This is the fifth in the Jack MacIntosh series, and so Kidd has to strike a balance between boring the readers who are well aware of the back-story, and not baffling those new to the books. She carries out this piece of legerdemain very cleverly. Looking at the title, readers will think, “Hang on, we haven’t had capital punishment in the UK since the mid 1960s, so why the reference?” Again , Michelle Kidd has the answers, and they lie in a macabre piece of London history While dodging the tides and trying to investigate the gruesome suitcase, the investigators find more human remains, but this time they are much older. The bleached skull and assorted remnants of its skeleton pose just another headache for MacIntosh and his team.
At one point, I was beginning to feel that there were too many loose ends and plot threads going off at a tangent, and I wondered if Michelle Kidd could – or would – resolve them, but my lack of faith was knocked firmly on the head as the different directions merged, and even the back-story behind the back-story became transparent and lucid. In a startling conclusion, Jack MacIntosh comes face to face with the demons – both human and metaphorical – who plague both his dreams and his waking hours
This is a tense and brutal journey through the dark waters of life that Jack MacIntosh and his colleagues have to wade through. Past and present collide in unpredictable ways. Hangman’s End is published by Question Mark Press and is out now.
I reviewed an earlier book, Guilt, from a different series by Michelle Kidd, and you can read what I thought by clicking the link.
Michelle Kidd is a self-published author best known for the Detective Inspector Jack MacIntosh series of novels set in London. She has also recently begun a new series which is set in her home town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk – starring Detective Inspector Nicki Hardcastle.
She qualified as a lawyer in the early 1990s and spent the best part of ten years practising civil and criminal litigation.
In 2018 Michelle self-published The Phoenix Project and has not looked back since. There are currently five DI Jack MacIntosh novels, and the first DI Nicki Hardcastle story was released in August 2021. Follow her at:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/michellekiddauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellekid...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorKidd
Website : www.michellekiddauthor.com
We have the advantage over the police in that we are introduced early on to the man who dropped the suitcase from the bridge into the mud. We are not sure if he is the actual slaughterman, or merely the butcher, but we do learn the whereabouts of the child’s head. The victim is soon identified as Maisie Lancaster, but a visit to her parents’ house brings MacIntosh into a collision with the metaphorical runaway car of one of his previous cases.
“Previous” is the key word here, as Michelle Kidd delicately negotiates the problems of having a main character with a troubled past, with the events having occurred earlier in the series. This is the fifth in the Jack MacIntosh series, and so Kidd has to strike a balance between boring the readers who are well aware of the back-story, and not baffling those new to the books. She carries out this piece of legerdemain very cleverly. Looking at the title, readers will think, “Hang on, we haven’t had capital punishment in the UK since the mid 1960s, so why the reference?” Again , Michelle Kidd has the answers, and they lie in a macabre piece of London history While dodging the tides and trying to investigate the gruesome suitcase, the investigators find more human remains, but this time they are much older. The bleached skull and assorted remnants of its skeleton pose just another headache for MacIntosh and his team.
At one point, I was beginning to feel that there were too many loose ends and plot threads going off at a tangent, and I wondered if Michelle Kidd could – or would – resolve them, but my lack of faith was knocked firmly on the head as the different directions merged, and even the back-story behind the back-story became transparent and lucid. In a startling conclusion, Jack MacIntosh comes face to face with the demons – both human and metaphorical – who plague both his dreams and his waking hours
This is a tense and brutal journey through the dark waters of life that Jack MacIntosh and his colleagues have to wade through. Past and present collide in unpredictable ways. Hangman’s End is published by Question Mark Press and is out now.
I reviewed an earlier book, Guilt, from a different series by Michelle Kidd, and you can read what I thought by clicking the link.
Michelle Kidd is a self-published author best known for the Detective Inspector Jack MacIntosh series of novels set in London. She has also recently begun a new series which is set in her home town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk – starring Detective Inspector Nicki Hardcastle.
She qualified as a lawyer in the early 1990s and spent the best part of ten years practising civil and criminal litigation.
In 2018 Michelle self-published The Phoenix Project and has not looked back since. There are currently five DI Jack MacIntosh novels, and the first DI Nicki Hardcastle story was released in August 2021. Follow her at:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/michellekiddauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellekid...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorKidd
Website : www.michellekiddauthor.com
January 30, 2022
It is May 2014 and “The Fixer” arrives back at his Soho flat, his work of the past week nearly finished. He’s left the suitcase containing a torso, arms and legs where he knows the unfortunate dog walker will find it on his usual nightly route. The head, hands and feet are popped into his convenient new freezer for now. DI Jack Mackintosh is called to the scene as soon as the discovery by a Labrador is phoned in. It looks like the body parts belong to a child. Along with DS Chris Cooper and DS Amanda Cassidy, the whole team is back together now DC Trevor Daniels has been passed fit for duty after tangling with the Bishop in the previous story. A trawl of missing persons soon produces an identification and Jack finds himself on the same street as one of his first cases as a DC way back in 1989. An eight-year-old girl was murdered and, due to police incompetence, the likely killer escaped justice and still lives there. Surely it must be coincidence that another young girl from a few doors down lies in the mortuary in pieces? As the dig for the rest of the body continues, more bones are unearthed. The surprise comes when these are found to belong to a woman who went missing 20 years ago. Could there really be one killer leaving two murder victims at the same spot? In a baffling investigation, Jack and the team find themselves linking three deaths as more and more buried secrets come to light in a complex plot with a chilling conclusion.
Also running alongside is the unresolved death of Jack’s mother. Jack is convinced she was murdered by a man called James Quinn. Quinn was believed to be involved in another death the previous year, but as the story unfolds the reader begins to sees the connection to Jack and his brother Mac’s impending wedding. Surrey police have lost sight of him but Quinn has his eyes firmly on Jack.
This book is extremely well written and incredibly easy to become totally immersed in. I really appreciated that the location is given at the start of every chapter, making it easy to know exactly where the action or conversations are taking place. Also the history of Old London Bridge and Hangman’s End provides a fascinating addition and sets the scene well. This is an excellent police procedural featuring a great team of detectives and I liked that whilst being a dedicated officer with a strong sense of justice, Jack also has this darker side that is slowly coming to light. This is book 5 in the series but can easily be enjoyed as a stand-alone. Highly recommended! 5*
Also running alongside is the unresolved death of Jack’s mother. Jack is convinced she was murdered by a man called James Quinn. Quinn was believed to be involved in another death the previous year, but as the story unfolds the reader begins to sees the connection to Jack and his brother Mac’s impending wedding. Surrey police have lost sight of him but Quinn has his eyes firmly on Jack.
This book is extremely well written and incredibly easy to become totally immersed in. I really appreciated that the location is given at the start of every chapter, making it easy to know exactly where the action or conversations are taking place. Also the history of Old London Bridge and Hangman’s End provides a fascinating addition and sets the scene well. This is an excellent police procedural featuring a great team of detectives and I liked that whilst being a dedicated officer with a strong sense of justice, Jack also has this darker side that is slowly coming to light. This is book 5 in the series but can easily be enjoyed as a stand-alone. Highly recommended! 5*
January 28, 2022
I love discovering a new detective series and I absolutely loved Hangman’s End. It works really well as a standalone novel but this is book 5 in the DI Jack MacIntosh series so it feels as though there has been some great character development previously. Also, there are mentions of a previous case which doesn’t hinder the plot, however made me very curious. I’ll definitely be going back to read the other books in the series.
I was hooked from page one and raced through this book. Each chapter is divided further into small sections of actual time during the investigation, and it reads almost in real time. I could really see this playing out as a TV series. It’s a larger book than I normally read but it’s so fast paced and Moorish I was through it in no time at all.
Jack MacIntosh is an excellent character and although I can tell there has been development, there seems to be much more to come (I really hope so). His team are well established, and I loved the relationship he had with them all. It’s a big cast of supporting characters and took me a while to get my head around them all. The support they give each other and the way their roles fit together to form a bigger picture works so well.
The plot is amazing and has some really good twists and turns that kept me guessing. I loved trying to put pieces together between the cases myself (I’m never much good at this but it’s so much fun) and the author gave enough information at exactly the right time to keep me in suspense. I couldn’t stop reading as I couldn’t wait to get the next morsel of a clue/lead.
This is such a well written detective/crime novel and I really cannot wait to go back and discover the earlier books in the series.
I was hooked from page one and raced through this book. Each chapter is divided further into small sections of actual time during the investigation, and it reads almost in real time. I could really see this playing out as a TV series. It’s a larger book than I normally read but it’s so fast paced and Moorish I was through it in no time at all.
Jack MacIntosh is an excellent character and although I can tell there has been development, there seems to be much more to come (I really hope so). His team are well established, and I loved the relationship he had with them all. It’s a big cast of supporting characters and took me a while to get my head around them all. The support they give each other and the way their roles fit together to form a bigger picture works so well.
The plot is amazing and has some really good twists and turns that kept me guessing. I loved trying to put pieces together between the cases myself (I’m never much good at this but it’s so much fun) and the author gave enough information at exactly the right time to keep me in suspense. I couldn’t stop reading as I couldn’t wait to get the next morsel of a clue/lead.
This is such a well written detective/crime novel and I really cannot wait to go back and discover the earlier books in the series.
January 24, 2022
hese characters.
The beginning is quite a horrible crime, one of the worst, but its not gratuitous or overly detailed. The effect on the people attending is brilliantly written as well, so you really feel that they police and forensics people are human, and are impacted by the crimes they investigate.
I am absolutely falling in love with Dom and Isabel. They are such wonderful, feel good, sweet characters and create a nice little side story away from the horror of the investigation.
The investigation is intense and ends up following three different strands, Jake isnt sure if they are linked and one goes back to a case when he was a rookie that has bothered him for 25 years.
After bones that have lain hidden for a long time are discovered, the tale of Hangmans End, a place on London Bridge where the highwaymen were caught and hung over the bridge for three days, emerges. It is linked to a pub where the victorious hangman was allowed a drink on the house.
There seem to be more questions than answers for the team, but we get a little hint as it progresses. However when all is revealed there were a few open mouth moments.
There is also a side story with Gina working in a disgusting sounding greasy spoon cafe, so well written I almost felt dirty everytime I read it, not only because of the setting but the staff and customers too!
I was so engrossed in this I was tempted to carry on reading until I finished, despite it already being nearly midnight, it has a very tempting just one more chapter style. Cannot wait for the next book, especially with the ending!
The beginning is quite a horrible crime, one of the worst, but its not gratuitous or overly detailed. The effect on the people attending is brilliantly written as well, so you really feel that they police and forensics people are human, and are impacted by the crimes they investigate.
I am absolutely falling in love with Dom and Isabel. They are such wonderful, feel good, sweet characters and create a nice little side story away from the horror of the investigation.
The investigation is intense and ends up following three different strands, Jake isnt sure if they are linked and one goes back to a case when he was a rookie that has bothered him for 25 years.
After bones that have lain hidden for a long time are discovered, the tale of Hangmans End, a place on London Bridge where the highwaymen were caught and hung over the bridge for three days, emerges. It is linked to a pub where the victorious hangman was allowed a drink on the house.
There seem to be more questions than answers for the team, but we get a little hint as it progresses. However when all is revealed there were a few open mouth moments.
There is also a side story with Gina working in a disgusting sounding greasy spoon cafe, so well written I almost felt dirty everytime I read it, not only because of the setting but the staff and customers too!
I was so engrossed in this I was tempted to carry on reading until I finished, despite it already being nearly midnight, it has a very tempting just one more chapter style. Cannot wait for the next book, especially with the ending!
May 1, 2022
TRIGGER WARNING: this book deals with a child murder
A dismembered child's body is discovered in a suitcase along the Thames and at the next low tide a skeleton is found. Could the two bodies be connected and is it the same killer? DI Jack MacIntosh and his team investigate the murders.
Hangman's End is the fifth book in the Jack MackIntosh series but it is the first that I have read. There are references to events in the recent past as well as old cases which may contain spoilers from the previous books.
The plot itself is gruesome and grisly, hence the warnng at the start of this review. I felt very uncomfortable about reading about the dead child especially as we all see sections by the killer that are deeply upleasant. This shows the power of the writing for generating such a visceral response in the reader.
Jack MacIntosh is a great lead detective. He is haunted by an old case as well as his own mother's murder. This adds to his determination to find justice for his current victims. We may not always agree with his actions and he has some non police-like behaviour in his background that could threaten his career.
The book clearly defines the time and place for each section of each chapter and I liked this for creating a clear timeline of events and location. There are subplots that unfold and it was interesting to see how the author wove the plot strands together. The ending was dramatic as the case concludes and a personal issue comes to the fore.
Hangman's End was a grisly but good police procedural and crime novel.
A dismembered child's body is discovered in a suitcase along the Thames and at the next low tide a skeleton is found. Could the two bodies be connected and is it the same killer? DI Jack MacIntosh and his team investigate the murders.
Hangman's End is the fifth book in the Jack MackIntosh series but it is the first that I have read. There are references to events in the recent past as well as old cases which may contain spoilers from the previous books.
The plot itself is gruesome and grisly, hence the warnng at the start of this review. I felt very uncomfortable about reading about the dead child especially as we all see sections by the killer that are deeply upleasant. This shows the power of the writing for generating such a visceral response in the reader.
Jack MacIntosh is a great lead detective. He is haunted by an old case as well as his own mother's murder. This adds to his determination to find justice for his current victims. We may not always agree with his actions and he has some non police-like behaviour in his background that could threaten his career.
The book clearly defines the time and place for each section of each chapter and I liked this for creating a clear timeline of events and location. There are subplots that unfold and it was interesting to see how the author wove the plot strands together. The ending was dramatic as the case concludes and a personal issue comes to the fore.
Hangman's End was a grisly but good police procedural and crime novel.
February 8, 2022
This is the fifth book in the series and although I’ve not read the others this didn’t disappoint. Although there were a few references to previous reads there wasn’t enough to put me off completing the read. I love a case and an investigation and the DI in this was absolutely fab. This was probably a bit more on the brutal side to the usual murder investigations I’ve read recently but it was full of unsuspected twists and turns that fixate you.
For me I loved getting to a new chapter and following the timeline, the layout to this was extremely unique. It was brilliant how the author built up the suspense. The relation back to twenty years ago really stood out and the pieces were delicately placed together. There’s so much evidence and Jack’s determination to not let this go makes this incredibly enjoyable. Any reader would fall in love with Jacks personality.
Expect the unexpected, you will not be disappointed. The writing style is really easy to follow, the pace flows with progress as it heats up. From the very beginning you get you sucked into needing and wanting to know more. There was so much knowledge built in the storyline you can almost visualise watching this as a film in your mind. The author clearly understands the workings of the systems when it comes to investigations and everything was believable.
If you love crime, murder, thrillers that are incredibly fast paced and puzzling you’ll absolutely love this read.
For me I loved getting to a new chapter and following the timeline, the layout to this was extremely unique. It was brilliant how the author built up the suspense. The relation back to twenty years ago really stood out and the pieces were delicately placed together. There’s so much evidence and Jack’s determination to not let this go makes this incredibly enjoyable. Any reader would fall in love with Jacks personality.
Expect the unexpected, you will not be disappointed. The writing style is really easy to follow, the pace flows with progress as it heats up. From the very beginning you get you sucked into needing and wanting to know more. There was so much knowledge built in the storyline you can almost visualise watching this as a film in your mind. The author clearly understands the workings of the systems when it comes to investigations and everything was believable.
If you love crime, murder, thrillers that are incredibly fast paced and puzzling you’ll absolutely love this read.
January 28, 2022
I am a massive fan of a good police procedural and this is most definitely a good police procedural. Book 5 in the series DI Jack MacIntosh, this can easily be read as a stand-alone. Although Jack has a troubled past we are given enough detail to follow what is clearly an ongoing storyline, but not enough to spoil the previous books for anyone like me who now has four more books to add to their ever growing pile!
Briefly, when a suitcase is found under a bridge with a dismembered body of a child with the head, hands and feet missing the investigation seems difficult enough without a further body being found, this time just bones. Jack doesn’t believe in coincidence; the cases must be related. Then a further link occurs between this and a cold case from 1989, the murder of a child, in which the main suspect was released due to police incompetence. With three cases now on his desk can Jack and his team find the killer(s).
With all these plot threads skittering off in their own directions, as well as a number of smaller plot lines, there are twists and turns aplenty and as the investigation notches up they all come together seamlessly. With the cases solved there is a shocking conclusion to the book related to Jack’s past. This is so well planned and written and a real page turner so much so that I got very little sleep the night I was reading it. Just fabulous ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Briefly, when a suitcase is found under a bridge with a dismembered body of a child with the head, hands and feet missing the investigation seems difficult enough without a further body being found, this time just bones. Jack doesn’t believe in coincidence; the cases must be related. Then a further link occurs between this and a cold case from 1989, the murder of a child, in which the main suspect was released due to police incompetence. With three cases now on his desk can Jack and his team find the killer(s).
With all these plot threads skittering off in their own directions, as well as a number of smaller plot lines, there are twists and turns aplenty and as the investigation notches up they all come together seamlessly. With the cases solved there is a shocking conclusion to the book related to Jack’s past. This is so well planned and written and a real page turner so much so that I got very little sleep the night I was reading it. Just fabulous ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
January 28, 2022
This is not for the faint-hearted. Anything to do with children is always hard to read, so don’t say I didn’t warn you. But it is fiction after all.
DI Jack MacIntosh is back for another outing and this time it involves the body of a child. But while searching for evidence on the banks of the Thames beneath London Bridge, the team find more bones and a skull, which look like they have been buried for many years. Who do they belong to and how did they die?
Jack doesn’t believe in coincidences, so when other similarities are discovered, he starts looking for possible links. Initially there appear to be none, but start scraping the surface and together with DNA, profiling and modern forensics, the dead begin to reveal their secrets. So how are the two murders connected and is it the same killer?
We also have a couple of other stories ‘on the side’ so to speak. Jack’s younger brother Stuart ‘Mac’ MacIntosh is about to get married to Isabel Faraday who we met in book one, but we also have a lees savoury character – James Quinn – who Jack believes murdered his mother – it was assumed she committed suicide by hanging herself when Jack was four years old.
I know some of these back stories have run through the whole series, but don’t worry if you haven’t read them all or even any, you can still enjoy this as a standalone. I certainly enjoyed this one and I’ve become rather fond of Jack and his team.
Many thanks to @zooloo2008 for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.
DI Jack MacIntosh is back for another outing and this time it involves the body of a child. But while searching for evidence on the banks of the Thames beneath London Bridge, the team find more bones and a skull, which look like they have been buried for many years. Who do they belong to and how did they die?
Jack doesn’t believe in coincidences, so when other similarities are discovered, he starts looking for possible links. Initially there appear to be none, but start scraping the surface and together with DNA, profiling and modern forensics, the dead begin to reveal their secrets. So how are the two murders connected and is it the same killer?
We also have a couple of other stories ‘on the side’ so to speak. Jack’s younger brother Stuart ‘Mac’ MacIntosh is about to get married to Isabel Faraday who we met in book one, but we also have a lees savoury character – James Quinn – who Jack believes murdered his mother – it was assumed she committed suicide by hanging herself when Jack was four years old.
I know some of these back stories have run through the whole series, but don’t worry if you haven’t read them all or even any, you can still enjoy this as a standalone. I certainly enjoyed this one and I’ve become rather fond of Jack and his team.
Many thanks to @zooloo2008 for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.
January 28, 2025
My 6P review: Premise, Plot, People, Place, Prose/Pace, Praise
The fourth instalment of the DI Jack Macintosh series and we find out a little more about Jack and his brother. We are also thrown into a case which has its roots embedded in sheer evil.
Jacks past has a way of creeping into the story both professionally and personally and this adds an excellent layer to the plot. This is not one for the faint-hearted though, with a dismembered child featuring prominently.
There were a lot of characters in this one and at times I was a bit confused with who was who and their motives. I’m now struggling to even remember them all.
I loved the story of the pub and the bridge, (even though fictional) as it served the purpose well and was very convincing.
A highly enjoyable series.
Onto the next instalment.
The fourth instalment of the DI Jack Macintosh series and we find out a little more about Jack and his brother. We are also thrown into a case which has its roots embedded in sheer evil.
Jacks past has a way of creeping into the story both professionally and personally and this adds an excellent layer to the plot. This is not one for the faint-hearted though, with a dismembered child featuring prominently.
There were a lot of characters in this one and at times I was a bit confused with who was who and their motives. I’m now struggling to even remember them all.
I loved the story of the pub and the bridge, (even though fictional) as it served the purpose well and was very convincing.
A highly enjoyable series.
Onto the next instalment.
January 17, 2022
DI Macintosh and his team are given a new case. A mutilated body has been found under the London Bridge - stuffed in a suitcase, a young child dismembered without identifying factors of head, hands and feet.
Jack is brought back to a street of his first days of being a detective - a young girl missing, the case bumbled by the lead detective.
And then bones are uncovered. At the same location. Could they be linked?
So much going on with this plot - people, storylines and lots of questions. Good read.
Jack is brought back to a street of his first days of being a detective - a young girl missing, the case bumbled by the lead detective.
And then bones are uncovered. At the same location. Could they be linked?
So much going on with this plot - people, storylines and lots of questions. Good read.
February 26, 2024
Another clear winner by Michelle Kidd and her intrepid detective Jack Mackintosh.
This is the fourth in the series and they keep getting better and better. Each character is well fleeced out and the various plot lines keeps you guessing.
There is also a continuing thread throughout with the killing of Jack's mother.
I also think it's about time poor Jack had a woman in his life lol!
Have already downloaded book 5. Highly recommend this series.
This is the fourth in the series and they keep getting better and better. Each character is well fleeced out and the various plot lines keeps you guessing.
There is also a continuing thread throughout with the killing of Jack's mother.
I also think it's about time poor Jack had a woman in his life lol!
Have already downloaded book 5. Highly recommend this series.
February 8, 2022
My Thoughts:
This story starts out following DI Jack Macintosh and his team when they learn a dog found a mutilated body in a suitcase. This story is a intense dark and brutal murder that may be linked to a old past murder that has gone unsolved. This is the fifth book in the DI Jack Macintosh series but is fine to read as a stand-alone
This story starts out following DI Jack Macintosh and his team when they learn a dog found a mutilated body in a suitcase. This story is a intense dark and brutal murder that may be linked to a old past murder that has gone unsolved. This is the fifth book in the DI Jack Macintosh series but is fine to read as a stand-alone
January 24, 2022
Another epic thriller by Michelle Kidd. The twists and turns by this author never cease to surprise me. There are links to previous books in the DI Macintosh series, but they are quite subtle so can be read as standalones.
March 22, 2023
Twenty years buried - Michelle Kidd
Love Jack Macintosh! Brooding, but empathetic. Determined to get his man. Clever writing, all characters fleeced out and brought to life. Exciting, nerve-wracking, and parts brought me to tears. Wonderful author. I'm hooked!
Love Jack Macintosh! Brooding, but empathetic. Determined to get his man. Clever writing, all characters fleeced out and brought to life. Exciting, nerve-wracking, and parts brought me to tears. Wonderful author. I'm hooked!
March 27, 2023
Another cracking read
I have
enjoyed all the Jack Macintosh mysteries, I like the main characters , the police officers and the team at the cafe. I feel invested in them as we know their upbringing and backgrounds .
I have
enjoyed all the Jack Macintosh mysteries, I like the main characters , the police officers and the team at the cafe. I feel invested in them as we know their upbringing and backgrounds .
September 3, 2023
Well! Loved it, loved how the storyline unfolded. Jack managed to get out of some situations but still has a lot to answer. Praise to the author and hope there’s another follow book to end the series.
November 7, 2024
Memories can hurt
Jack is still looking for the man who murdered his mother so many years ago. More murders are still pouring into his workload, but one is an old case which still haunts him. I liked reading more about these characters who feel like real people.
Jack is still looking for the man who murdered his mother so many years ago. More murders are still pouring into his workload, but one is an old case which still haunts him. I liked reading more about these characters who feel like real people.
Want to read
March 2, 2023TWENTY YEARS BURIED an absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist (Detective Inspector Jack MacIntosh Mysteries Book 4) Kindle Edition
by MICHELLE KIDD (Author)
by MICHELLE KIDD (Author)
May 1, 2023
Many twist and turns in this interesting plot. Good development of characters.
May 14, 2023
Another good read.
I really enjoyed reading another of this profiles books, I like the way the story progresses and develops then the way it starts to come together and concludes.
I really enjoyed reading another of this profiles books, I like the way the story progresses and develops then the way it starts to come together and concludes.
June 13, 2023
five star
Wonderful story I’ve just discovered Michelle kid and already have read three books this week
Can’t put them down
Excellent
Wonderful story I’ve just discovered Michelle kid and already have read three books this week
Can’t put them down
Excellent
December 17, 2023
Great series. Many twists to keep me guessing!
March 7, 2024
A really good detective series
April 14, 2024
A very convoluted tale
April 15, 2024
What a great book, most definately my favourite in the series so far. A fabulous read from start to finish.
July 30, 2024
2014. Parts of a body of a female child have been discovered inside a suitcase next to the River Thames. The investigation of the area reveals bones of a female from 20 years ago. Meanwhile James Quinn is on the hunt to kill MacIntosh.
An entertainingmodern mystery
An entertainingmodern mystery
August 21, 2024
Oh my word what great conclusion to a very complex story line .. Great characters great story , what More do I need to say ty Michelle
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