Hardback: August 2006. The disembowelled body of a young woman is fished out of Boston harbour. The distinctive mutilations to the corpse bear all the hallmarks of the killer they call Little Jack.
But unlike the six previous victims, Natalie Caldwell was no prostitute. She was a once-beautiful, ambitious and highflying lawyer. As the last person to have seen her alive, Scott Finn, her colleague and ex-lover, comes under intense scrutiny in the ongoing police investigation.
With Natalie's death, Finn also inherits the high-profile assignment she was working on. The case, involving a terrorist train bombing, could clinch his career.
But the more Finn uncovers about Tannery vs Huron Security, the murkier it all appears. And, as he learns more abou the circumstances surrounding Natalie's murder, Finn begins to harbour a dark suspicion. Was his former colleague the random victim of a merciless psychopath? Or could the case she was working on have some connection with her death?
Meanwhile, the city of Boston is being terrorised by a serial killer as devious as he is deranged. And Finn begins to fear for his own survival.
Dark Harbour (2005), the first book in the Scott Finn series, succeeds in subverting the reader's expectations at every fresh turn of the constantly twisting plot. It was a Barry Award nominee for Best First Novel. Other books in the series are Innocence (2007), Among Thieves (2010), and Next of Kin (2011). In a nutshell, David Hosp is a partner in one of Boston's largest and oldest law firms. He currently lives in Boston with his wife and their children.
Rating: 3/5
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