The Devil's Claw (Jennifer Dorey Mystery #1) by author Lara Dearman is a suspenseful thriller which throws the reader a few twists. As Jennifer Dorey works as a reporter for the Guernsey News in the town of St. Peter Port. She thought she had been followed as she drove into work by a stranger on a motorbike. Later that morning she opens an email with an offensive word typed across the front. Was someone watching her? There are secrets in her past which cause chilling sleepless nights., but she does not want to talk about the things that happened.
Later in the evening, she meets her mother down in the town to watch the fireworks light up the autumn sky. There would be a contest to judge the children’s entries of the best guy Guy Fawkes straw effigy before the bonfire. Unnatural screaming starts and Jenny runs to find the source of distress and finds a woman sobbing at the edge of the beach. Jenny shines her torch down as the woman is saying, “I just fell right over her” and see the dead body of a young woman!
DCI Michael Gilbert checks the beautiful woman’s body and takes pictures for his investigation. He sees deep cuts down the inside of her arm. Had she been partying and fallen off a boat into the water? Was it a suicide?
Then the story goes back to some events of 1959. The dysfunctional family of an unwed mother raising the illegitimate baby of a Nazi. The boy is now old enough to know he is different and not accepted in the village. His grandfather was very strange and had killed himself. As he grows to adulthood his resentments begin to manifest in odd ways.
This story has several layers of mystery and will keep the reader trying to connect them together to figure out who and why someone has murdered several young women. Jenny has flashbacks to her night of terror as she works to find answers to the meaning of the cuts on the bodies.
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