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Keeper

Roy and Castells, Book 2

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Keeper

Written by: Johana Gustawsson
Narrated by: Mark Meadows, Patricia Rodriguez
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Sequel to international best seller Block 46 and next in the award-winning Roy & Castells series.

Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper's reign of terror.

London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some 10 years earlier and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before.

Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman's body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims. With the man arrested for the Tower Hamlets crimes already locked up, do the new killings mean he has a dangerous accomplice, or is a copycat serial killer on the loose?

Profiler Emily Roy and true-crime writer Alexis Castells again find themselves drawn into an intriguing case, with personal links that turn their world upside down.

Following the highly acclaimed Block 46 and guaranteed to disturb and enthral, Keeper is a breathless thriller from the new queen of French Noir.

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Yeah, no, I won't be checking out the next installment in the series. Compared to the previous, some aspects have improved, but it wasn't enough to make up for the parts that still sucked. We still have no character development (except we learn that Emily is canonically NOT an Aspie, just a massive d*ck; how do we learn this? They introduced a new female character who IS csnonically an Aspie. She's not the worst caricature of a person with Asperger's, but, eh, that one scene with the French guy on the phone with her was offensively stupid) The leads are still flat, and they're still having horribly, pretentious written sex. The one male cop is still a caricature of a chauvinist pig.
And then the big, stupid reveal at the end, which came out of nowhere. It was lazy, and, subsequently, made the whole plot seem lazy, too.
It had potential, and some of it was interesting enough, but overall, it didn't work for me.

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