Ex-cop Valentine ‘Mac’ McGrath is now a private investigator. Hired to trace a missing teenage girl, who is subsequently found murdered, Mac becomes embroiled in the hunt for a repeat killer who is tagged the Saturday Night Strangler. Following a hunch, Mac unwittingly comes to the attention of the depraved psychopath and his newly acquired partner in crime, and they decide to eliminate him. Maggie Connelly is an artist, lives on a canal boat, and has fallen in love with Mac, having been there for him since her best friend – Mac’s late wife ‒ and son were killed in a car crash. Mac’s involvement in the case leads him on a course that will bring him and the killers face to face.
I write the type of original, action-packed, violent crime thrillers that I know I would enjoy reading if they were written by such authors as: Lee Child, David Baldacci, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly and their ilk. Over twenty years in the Prison Service proved great research into the minds of criminals, and especially into the dark world that serial killers - of who I have met quite a few - frequent.
I live in a cottage a mile from the nearest main road in the Yorkshire Wolds, enjoy photography, the wildlife, and of course creating new characters to place in dilemmas that my mind dreams up.
What makes a good read? Believable protagonists that you care about, set in a story that stirs all of your emotions.
If you like crime fiction, then I believe that 'Deadly Reprisal' and 'A Reacher Kind of Guy - Aftermath' will push all the right buttons for you.
Michael Kerr writes gritty and no holds barred thrillers. This book is a cracker. It keeps you on the edge of your seat and needing to know more, very difficult to put down. Not for the feint hearted.