Review: The Helper - David Jackson


I know that this author isn't Irish but is main character in the novel Detective Callum Doyle is and I couldn't help but post this cute little Irish picture.
Review: The Helper - David Jackson - March 2nd 2012
It seems lately that I have moved from reading one genre for a while to reading and reuniting myself with another that I hadn't touched in such an influx as I have lately, that genre is the mystery -serial killer books and of course, the more gruesome the better. Me and my psychotic mind haha.
When a murder takes place in a bookstore in America of a women named Cindy , Detective Callum Doyle (hence the St Patrick's Irish theme) is put on the case and he takes a look but nothing seems out of ordinary until he looks at the phone number written on the deceased's arm , it can't be a simple coincidence. The area code is for Ireland and the last four digits is his New York phone number. Callum dismisses it until that night , he recieves a phone call from the "Killer" who nicknames him "The Helper" and has a proposition of cat and mouse for Callum. Each night he will ring with clues and Callum must solve the clues as they will lead to the next victim and as Callum gets further involved, the killer starts to bring out Callum's personal history, family which drives Callum more to solve it. Can Callum get to the bottom of the case without giving too much away as if his department finds out - it won't be just his job that he will lose .
This was an amazing book and well-written and definitely lived up to it's tagline of giving Harlan Coben ( who I've read everything by) a run for his money. I will be making it a new goal to check out what else David Jackson has written.

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