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The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan) by Jane Casey (view source)
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'''Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2021'''
It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body parts. Identification of the body was not going to be easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadn't been willing to share any of the details with Bianca.
I read the book far too quickly: I would have been happy for it to be twice as long. I just wanted to stay with the story and I can't wait for the next instalment. I'd like to thank the publishers for letting Bookbag have a review copy.
You could read this book as a standalone, but you'll get far more out of it if you start at the beginning - and it's hardly a trial to do so. The first book is [[The Burning by Jane Casey|The Burning]] and you'll find a chronological list of the books [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|here]]. You might also enjoy [[Perfect Kill (D I Callanach) by Helen Fields]].
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