Blood of the Rose by Kevin Murray Review

“It started low and soft, but grew slowly, increasing in pitch and volume into an unceasing scream so loud and so desperate it pierced his primeval soul. The detective was stunned, his mind blank. On the ragged edges of his consciousness a prophecy took hold. He could see, with shattering clarity, that there would never again be a time in his life when that scream did not exist.”

London, 1986. A newspaper editor is horrifically murdered, his death quickly followed by a series of more brutal, and often bizarre, slayings. The police are baffled, the only clear link between the murders being a single blood red rose left at the scene of every killing. Why? What does the rose mean? What connects the killer to each bloody corpse?
Scotland Yard detective Alan Winters leads a hunt for the elusive prey. As the body count rises, Jennifer Chapman, renowned investigative journalist and daughter of the murdered newspaper editor, sets out on a personal quest for revenge.
Drawn together in their pursuit of a deadly quarry, Winters and Jennifer unwittingly face a fatal surprise, for the killer is closer than they think. As they close in on the truth of the blood red rose, their unseen foe plots a shattering end to his reign of terror, and death awaits them all…..

My Review:
I really liked this book. I love when books deal with Scotland Yard. They work so differently! I feel like I am in another place and another time. I enjoyed reading about Jennifer and her budding romance as well. The author wrote short chapters that I was able to read here and there. It was nice that I did not have to put it down. My favorite part was the roses that was left at each murder. Towards the end it was obvious that danger was never far away, I am giving this book a 4/5. I was given a copy to review via Authoramp, however all opinions are my own.