Killer's Craft (The DI Shona McKenzie Mysteries Book 2)

Great excand funny too really looking forward to purchasing the next one in the series I'm sure it will live up to expectations

This review comes with not one but three health warnings.Firstly, if Dundee in real life bears any resemblance to the one portrayed in these pages, then it is a dangerous place to live!Secondly, it may well lead to an increased intake of calories and caffeine. Dundee's finest march on their stomachs. I can't remember a book since my childhood favourites of Enid Blyton and Frank (Billy Bunter) Richards where there is quite so much food - in this case the drinking of tea and coffee and the eating of fried food and cakes. I like all of these but the subliminal pressure to consume while reading was nearly overwhelming.Thirdly, this book is addictive and is likely to keep you up past your normal bedtime. (As if all the extra caffeine hadn't already done that!).When I reviewed Wendy's first book "Killer's Countdown" I expressed the hope that this was the start of a long running series and I am glad to report that the promise contained in that book has been more than fulfilled as Shona, her colleagues and Dundee develop.Looking forward to Number 3 in the series!

Having thoroughly enjoyed Killer's Countdown ( book 1) I was delighted that book 2 was already available. Always wary of a second book not being quite as good as a first, I was preparing to be a little let down. I could not have been more wrong. The plot was very very different and beautifully and individually constructed. Another compelling, engaging and crafted story that kept me guessing to the end. It was also endearing in places, mostly involving a Dundee's finest stuffing their faces with the vast range of wonderful victuals available from Dundee's wonderful cake and "peh" shops. "Who would want to kill a Nun?" Is a question posed early in the story. As someone whose early education was in the hands of one particularly unpleasant and unkind specimen in a Dundee primary school I was anticipating a host of suspects to emerge. However, the individuality of each victim keeps DI Shona baffled and testing her detection skills to the nth degree. The killer or killers are superbly elusive and beyond detection until the last. This is a cracking, "unputdowneable" read. Thank heavens for backlit e-readers which can be read through the night without domestic strife ensuing! This author's books occupy a rightful place on the bestseller table. Number 3 soon please Ms Jones.

I was thrilled to find the second book in the Shona McKenzie series out and so soon after the first. I loved her début novel and was pleased to find that her second was just as well crafted, and inciting from the first word! Wendy Jones has a knack for writing compelling crime fiction and I know that I am not alone in saying that I am very much looking forward to the next in the series. The book starts with a strange murder, moving on to stranger ones still. The team can't find a link, and it's beginning to look like DI Shona has brought her bad luck with murders along with her from Oxford.I loved this book from start to finish. It was well written, a page turner and I did find it hard at times to put it down and get some much needed sleep. I was desperate to get to the end and see who this killer was. It ends with a blow to the heart and has left me counting down the days for the third in the series! I loved it! Highly recommended to all readers who love a good piece of mystery, intrigue and murder!

Who would kill one nun, let alone three? This is a question DI Shona McKenzie and her team are sick of hearing and not just because there are no immediate answers.Dundee is in the grip of a harsh winter, which makes getting around and processing crime scenes tougher than normal. Several more apparently unrelated murders add to the gruesome tally, making things increasingly difficult for Tayside’s finest. Throw in a couple of Russian thugs and it looks like DI Shona has bitten off more than she can chew.This second instalment in the DI Shona McKenzie series was worth the wait. Wendy Jones draws us into the story from the beginning with her eloquent prose and the story is infused with humour.Wendy Jones shows us how Tartan Noir should be written and if Stuart MacBride and Ian Rankin aren’t quaking in their boots yet then they should be. DI Shona McKenzie is a force to be reckoned with.

Portrayal of press spoiled it for me. While some reporters may behave the way the author described, in this book and the other one I have read, the reporters from the Courier and the evening telegraph (i.e.D C Thomson) are not like that! If the author wants to display reporters in the way she has done, and I do not doubt there are some like that, it would be better just to say 'a reporter from a newspaper'. I do not work with any newspaper but do have extensive experience of the press and court cases!

WOW...Totally loved this book.The plot is gritty and tense.Shona McKenzie and her team are amazing.There are some funny quips in here thatake the characters come to life.I'd kill for one of their sandwiches.Excellent.Im straight into the next book.

The second in the Shona McKenzie police mystery series. The snow and the bodies are arriving thick and fast in Dundee. Shona is fast getting a reputation among the law enforcement professional and Police of attracting bodies the Chief is not amused. A fast moving story that will keep you intrigued as the story unfolds. The climax when it arrives is both unexpected and satisfying. It's not a book your able to put down easily, Tartan noir at its best and not a good recommendation for a holiday in Dundee. Well done Wendy I'm eagerly anticipating book three !