Review: THE CUTTING PLACE, Jane Casey

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  format: Kindle e-book (Amazon)
  
• ASIN : B07ND6691Q
• Publisher : HarperCollins (April 3, 2020)
• Publication date : April 3, 2020
• File size : 1217 KB
• Text-to-Speech : Enabled
• Print length : 390 pages 
• #9 in the Maeve Kerrigan series 

Synopsis (Amazon)

Rumours…
Everyone’s heard the rumours about elite gentlemen’s clubs, where the champagne flows freely, the parties are outrageous…and what goes on behind closed doors is darker than you could possibly imagine.

Scandals…
Paige Hargreaves was a young journalist working on a story about a club for the most privileged men in London. She was on the brink of exposing a shocking scandal. Then she disappeared.

Secrets…
DS Maeve Kerrigan must immerse herself in the club’s world of wealth, luxury and ruthless behaviour to find out what happened. But Maeve is keeping secrets of her own. Will she uncover the truth? Or will time run out for Maeve first?

My take

A Thames mudlarker discovers a human hand and an investigating team finds a few other pieces of a body, enough for the forensic pathologist to say that these are female remains, and enough to yield some DNA which eventually leads to identification of young journalist who has disappeared just when she was about to break a shocking story. 

There are several threads to this plot: a male voice recounts something that happened two years earlier, and Maeve Kerrigan works on the current story. But the thread that virtually takes over is the domestic violence that Maeve becomes part of, something she had never thought would happen to her.

An engrossing read.

My rating: 4.8 

I've also read

4.6, THE MISSING 
4.3, THE BURNING #1
4.5, LET THE DEAD SPEAK #7
4.6, CRUEL ACTS - #8
4.5, THE RECKONING - #24.6, SILENT KILL - #8.5