Will to Live

Author/Guide: Rachel Amphlett

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: A suicide on the railways or something more sinister still?

ISBN: 978-0994433787
Genre: Crime

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What you need to know before your trail

A commuter train runs over a body on a stretch of track known to locals as ‘Suicide Mile’, but rather than a tragic suicide, it becomes clear that the man was a victim of a calculated murder.

Detective Sergeant Kay Hunter realises the railway’s recent reputation may be the work of a brutal serial killer. The name Suicide Mile might be very misleading

When a second murder takes place within a week of the first, she realises the killer’s timetable has changed, and she’s running out of time to stop him…

She might have a backlog of cold cases to investigate and knows someone has a professional vendetta against her, but Kay must keep one step ahead of both the killer and her own adversaries if she is to solve this case.

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Kent

Suicide Mile is said to be the length of track between Maidstone and Kemsing in Kent (in the book) so there’s little scope for a booktrail and given the subject matter, just the stations are mapped out in order for you to see the location of the stations.

Murders on train tracks are more gruesome than most. Not for the faint hearted.

Booktrailer Review

@JenMedBkReviews

What a book. Picking up a short time after we left Kay and the team at the end of Scared to Death, she is still trying to find out the truth behind the incident which has cast doubt upon her reliability, led to an irreparable breakdown in her trust of her colleagues and effectively stalled her career. The need to find answers plays constantly on her mind and leads to some real conflict throughout the novel, putting people who Kay cares about at risk as someone sends a very personal message to her to stop digging. But this private investigation, however important, is still secondary to the central theme of the book. The apparent suicides of several men on a notorious stretch of railway in Kent.

There are enough false starts and red herrings in this book to keep the reader guessing until the end. Although we are treated to chapters told in the killers voice, we never really know who they are. And I love it when that happens, when you can get right to the very end of a novel and think how in the heck did I miss that?