Jackdaw by Daniel Cole

Jackdaw by Daniel Cole

From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Ragdoll, comes a heart-in-your-mouth unputdownable thriller that will keep you up all night!

They call him the Jackdaw. On each body, he leaves a chilling signature: five scratches. And each time he kills, he takes a trophy, an eerie collection that grows with every strike.

No one knows what he looks like, where he'll strike next, or why. He could be your neighbour, your boss... your husband. There's only a paralysing fear that, whoever he is, he's out there: watching, waiting.

Detective Scarlett Delaney's neck prickles every time she hears the name Jackdaw. And now she's been tasked with hunting him down before he kills again. But as she ventures deeper into a murky world of half-truths and clever lies, chasing the scant clues that Jackdaw leaves behind, Scarlett realises she isn't just hunting a killer. She's on his list.

Soon the lines between prey and predator begin to blur, and Scarlett discovers that trusting those around her might be her final, deadly mistake...

A totally gripping crime thriller with an AMAZING twist. If you loved Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh, The Chain by Adrian McKinty or anything by Jennifer Hillier you will race through Jackdaw.

Daniel Cole, a thirty-three-year-old paramedic, has made a name for himself as a best-selling author with his first, Ragdoll (Mueco de Trapo), a story that began as a movie and is now being developed into a television series. At the time, more than thirty countries have acquired translation rights, and the work has already been a commercial success in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Holland. This first novel appears to have completed one of the author's unfinished tasks. «Senta la necesidad a terminar esta historia y no dejar que polvo continue accumulando debajo de mi cama,» he admits. I believe I wrote it with a sense of conceit, with the intention of creating something that I would have enjoyed reading: a gripping story with characters who wind up being almost my friends».

Cole lives in Bournemouth and is working on a new book. Follow the author on Twitter at @Daniel_P_Cole.