Creepy Crawly
DI Jake Sawyer Series Book One
by Andrew Lowe
"Just because you don't feel fear, it doesn't mean you shouldn't be afraid."
DI JAKE SAWYER is the brightest star of the Met Police murder squad. Sharp, tough and pathologically fearless.
Now he’s quit the capital and returned to his home town in England’s Peak District, to investigate the savage murder of his mother, thirty years earlier.
When the body of a teenage boy is found in a shallow grave, close to woodland where Sawyer used to play as a child, he’s called in to help decode the killer’s nightmarish methods.
But as the victims stack up and the case takes an unexpected turn, Sawyer must risk his own life to hunt the hunter and save an innocent.
Creepy Crawly is Book One in the DI Jake Sawyer series. Dive in now and discover a new breed of detective, with stories that reveal the dark side of one of England's brightest beauty spots.
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Momma Says: 3 stars⭐⭐⭐
Creepy Crawly starts with an opening scene that is nothing short of chilling. From there, it goes into a rather lengthy description of characters - a lot of characters, including our main character, Jake, who has his own reasons for moving back to his home town. I'll admit I wasn't crazy about Jake, especially in the beginning. He's certainly intelligent, but he also comes across as quite arrogant. As the story progresses, we understand where some of that comes from, but there were still some things about him that put me off. We do have an interesting murder mystery, but it's somewhat bogged down with so many characters, some seemingly completely removed from the case, and some right in the thick of things. Things do slowly start to come together and make sense, and the conclusion is tense and heart-racing. While this particular case is tied up by the book's end, there are still loose ends in Jake's personal life that I'm assuming will be ongoing with the series. In the end, there were things I liked about the story and things that I didn't, leaving me somewhere in the middle. While Jake Sawyer is an interesting character, I am still undecided about whether I'll continue with his journey.
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