Jigsaw Man - Softcover

Forbes, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784290440 ISBN 13: 9781784290443

Publisher: Quercus, 2015

Synopsis

DI Mark Tartaglia spends a night in a west London hotel with a woman he has just met. When he is called out to the same hotel the next morning to investigate a murder, he realises it must have taken place while he was there. If things weren't already complicated enough, the investigation takes a new and horrifying turn when he recognises the young female victim. Still reeling from the shock, he learns that another case he has been investigating - the body of a homeless man found in a burnt-out car - is also not what it seems. Tests reveal that the corpse has been assembled from the body parts of four different people. Under mounting pressure from the media and unsure where his loyalties lie, Tartaglia must solve this new macabre puzzle before the Jigsaw Killer strikes again.

About this title

About the Author:

Elena Forbes is the author of the Mark Tartaglia mystery series. The first novel in the series, Die with Me, was a finalist for the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger; and the second novel, Our Lady of Pain, was a Globe and Mail Top 10 Crime Book and a National Post pick for Best Crime Fiction. She lives in London, England, with her husband and children.

From Publishers Weekly:

Forbes (Die with Me) begins the fourth Det. Insp. Mark Tartagli mystery early one morning when a fellow detective awakens Mark, who's still hungover, and sends him to a murder scene at a hotel in London's West End—the same hotel Mark left only hours before, following a tryst with a woman he met there that night. His relief that the victim was not that same woman quickly turns to horror when he realizes that the victim is the sister of a former colleague of his, Samantha Donovan. Judged to be too close to the case, Mark is instead assigned to investigate the case of a body found burned in the trunk of a car, which turns out to be parts of four different bodies sewn together. Mark continues to unofficially investigate the murder of Samantha's sister, but Forbes does not handle the split focus between the two cases well, and leaves the titular "jigsaw" murder underdeveloped. The introduction of several characters in quick succession makes this mystery hard to follow at times. Readers familiar with characters from previous books in the series will be better equipped, particularly with more insight into the ambiguous relationship between Samantha and the unapologetically single Mark. Agent: Sarah Lutyens, Lutyens and Rubinstein (U.K.). (Feb.)\n

About this edition

• Publisher: Quercus
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784290440
• ISBN 13: 9781784290443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352