Review
Visceral and vicious, Millar shows why he’s the King of Irish Crime Fiction, says Verbal.
- The Dark Place
- Brandon
In the Dark
Book two of Sam Millar’s ‘Karl Kane’ series takes up where Bloodstorm left off.
Book two of Sam Millar’s ‘Karl Kane’ series takes up where Bloodstorm left off. Our intrepid local P.I. is suffering through a sweltering Belfast summer, when the sister of a young homeless woman comes looking for his help. The bodies of young runaways and drug addicts have been turning up mutilated and murdered and the city is gripped by terror at the cruelty of the vile serial killer. Kane becomes increasingly sure he knows who the perpetrator is – and the blind eye turned by the local authorities only serves to convince him his suspicions are correct. But when Kane’s own daughter disappears the stakes get much higher…
Miller does it again with this blood-curdling, visceral thriller. With what appears to be a now derelict version of the Maze Prison as the backdrop to his crimes, this new villain is even more chilling than the last lot – a coterie of deeply crooked policemen Kane faced off against in Bloodstorm. Nail biting stuff, but despite a few extra hints dropped this time round, we’re still no closer to finding out what the deep dark secret in Kane’s own past really is.
Verbal has eight signed copies of Sam Millar’s The Dark Place, to give away. The first eight people to contact Verbal with the name of Sam’s acclaimed 2003 memoir will win a copy.
