"Piranhas from Tirana."

Two women on opposite sides of the law: Lorraine Rowe, money laundered for her criminal husband from whom she had separated five months before after he had raped and beaten her so severely she was hospitalized and lost her unborn child; and Fiona (Fifi) Feilding, detective sergeant, on psychiatric review for anger issues following her abduction and torture some years before. And a third woman, connecting both, a very feisty journalist with little to lose and much to gain, Annemarie, from the Crusader, looking for the big headlines.
When Lorraine received the demand for money together with a picture of her separated spouse hideously tortured and killed, she appeals to an old friend for help. The husband's body is found by Rick in a garage close to her home. Had it been placed there deliberately? And how did Annemarie seem to solve the murder of Russian gangster Dmitri Peskov when it had defied police investigation? Will Patching's fast moving at times brutal novel is exciting, unexpected and has a feeling of reality to it often lacking in such thrillers. Good characterisation, frightening protagonists, enthralling story:
Performed by Gary Furlong, the narrationl was excellent, good pacing, well modulated and with distinct individual voices adding to the already good characterization.
Recommended to all thriller fans.

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