Circle of the Dead

The Saxon & Fitzgerald Mysteries #4

by Ingrid Black

Ex-FBI agent Saxon has dealt with many killers in her time but nothing can prepare her for the night of horror ahead...It's early evening on Halloween when the Dublin Murder squad are called out to the home of wealthy businessman Daniel Erskine. There, in his basement, they discover Daniel's tortured body. Then, just hours later, his friend Oliver Niland also meets a gruesome end. As special adviser to the Dublin Murder squad, Saxon teams up once again with Chief Superintendent Grace Fitzgerald to track down a killer who's closer than they think. But why has he targeted Daniel and Oliver? And what is the significance of the group known as the Second Circle to which they both belonged? The other members of the group might have the answers - but can Saxon and Fitzgerald get to them before it's too late?

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

512 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Ingrid Black is the pseudonym of Eilis O'Hanlon and Ian McConnel, a husband-and-wife writing team who live with their family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They are the creators of ‘Saxon and Grace Fitzgerald’, former FBI agent and Detective Chief Superintendent with the Dublin Metropolitan Police’s Murder Squad.

Reviews

[Dorien · Rating 2 out of 5]

Een taai boek, naar mijn bescheiden mening. Ik vond het naar het einde toe ook wat rommelig worden, het voelde een beetje aan als hoop-herrie-filmscript. Gevallen meisjes vond ik beter, was ook de reden waarom ik dit boek wel wilde lezen. Maar nu even geen Ingrid Black meer voor mij... 2,5 ster, en in dit geval dus naar beneden afgerond.

[Bianca Granneman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vermakelijk

[Kietaaatje ;) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Niet heel bijzonder. Het begin was een war boel, maar toen ik eenmaal in het verhaal zat was het wel leuk. Bleef een mysterie tot het eind.

[Marjolein (UrlPhantomhive) · Rating 3 out of 5]

READ IN DUTCH

This was the second book I found written by Ingrid Black, again it is set in Dublin, with some lovely descriptions on Dublin. I'd really like to go there someday.



The story was interesting, but mostly because it reminded me of an episode of some British detective series (I can't remember which one, because I used to watch quite a few of them). But it was also about a group of guys who in college had had a group they had called for Dante's (I believe it was second circle; the one for hedonists) inferno, something terrible had happened when partying. They had covered it up, probably by their wealthy/influential parents; but apparently someone knew about it and was hunting them down? (I think it might have been Lewis?)

Well, anyway, I couldn't stop wondering about it whilst reading this book.

[Texas · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book has two endings, I wished the author stopped writing with the first one

[Marcel Dekker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Slightly boring thriller by Ingrid Black. The story doesn't really start until way past half the book. The story is way too constructed and artificial, and the characters are as flat as paper.