Mark Sennen

"Rogue Target" was a far better novel than "The Sanction", the first in the Holm & da Silva series. It was a captivating read with plenty of action to keep me reading. Stephen Holm is a great protagonist. He's sixty, slightly overweight, gentlemanly, likes things done the 'old school' way and has a strong moral compass. His grasp on all things digital is basic at best yet he gets results. The other main characters, Rebecca, Itchy and Taher, are just as likeable and I am looking forward to them combining forces in the next instalment. I think, considering the ending, their lives will be even more closely entwined in the future. An entertaining read.… (plus d'informations)

Detective Inspector Charlotte Savage and her team are investigating a series of of gruesome attacks on young women. The victims are being drugged, abducted, assaulted and then abandoned. When the mutilated body of one of the women is found on a beach, the rape case turns into a murder inquiry.

While the story itself is fairly standard for the police procedural genre, I did like Charlotte a lot. She's not filled with angst and she's very professional. She heads her team in a believable way and while we didn't get a lot of character nuances, it may be because this is the first book in the series. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who doesn't like gritty mysteries but the price was certainly right.......free on Kindle. There are currently five books in the series so I might check another out in the future.… (plus d'informations)

The Bone Yard – The Charlotte Savage Series Gets Even Better

Mark Sennen has released the sixth outing for Detective Inspector Charlotte Savage, and what a rollercoaster we are taken on. Once again Sennen has proven why he is one of the best thriller writers in England now, as the Charlotte Savage series gets better with every outing, this is simply a stunning thriller that will leave you breathless. Mark Sennen has delivered, to use the cliché, a real page-turner, it is intense, gripping and keeps your breathless until the end.

Charlotte Savage and her DS, Darius Riley have been sent to pick up Malcolm Kendrick, who has been ‘asked to leave the USA’, and the police want to mark his card early on. Accused and of the murder of a number of girls in America and spreading their remains across a very large national park. But due to being tortured by a police officer whose daughter he is alleged to have murdered they cannot make a case stick.

While driving Kendrick back to Devon he taunts and suggests what he may have done in America without ever admitting to any crime. When a woman’s body turns up on the moors, murdered, Savage is sure that Kendrick knows something or has had some involvement but does nothing more than taunt them, and Savage in particular.

When Savage discovers more human remains in a bone yard for cars in what looks like a dumping ground, a full-scale murder investigation begins. But tied up with procedures and the correct way of doing things, Savage knows that she will have to solve the murder. It is only when she is taken off the case, for assaulting Kendrick, and her daughter has been kidnapped, does Savage’s fight or flight mode kick-in.

Assisted by the American cop, who has flown over, who had tortured Kendrick it is left to them to solve the case, find what Kendrick is hiding and safely lock him up. As more of Kendrick’s back story comes to light, to the reader, do you really see the evil in the crimes. Kendrick comes across as a smooth, smug operator who manages to stay a couple of steps ahead of the law, Savage realises that she may have to fight fire with fire.

With many twists and turns Sennen really knows how to draw the reader in and is a masterful storyteller, who pulls no punches but has created one of the best heroines in the thriller genre at the moment. Savage is just a kick ass, no nonsense character who loves her job, but loves her family more and will go the extra mile to protect them.

Charlotte Savage is the hero of the moment.… (plus d'informations)