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The Soul Collectors - Chris Mooney

Summary: Full of suspense and gore and jam packed with action.

A child missing twelve years returns and holds his family at gunpoint, a mask of human skin stitched over his mutilated face. But when the SWAT team arrive to defuse the situation, they instead release deadly gas and swiftly murder the family. Snazzy investigator Darby McCormick enters a mad world of medieval torture, ancient religion and missing children returned from the dead in this thriller.

I accidentally joined this series on the fourth book, but it stands alone pretty nicely. The plot runs at a breakneck pace, the writing is fluid and easy to read and the high body count keeps you in doubt of the genre. Frequently gruesome, occasionally emotive and hard to put down, the action sequences run thick and fast and there's little faffing about with romantic subplots. Ok, it has some faults. Many of the storylines fizzle out or get left behind, the characters are unrelatable (Darby may be an ass-kicking female but she gets over some horrific stuff suspiciously quickly) and the ending is frustrating. But the suspense and tension, no matter how they are executed, are exciting in concept and more than enough to satisfy at the end of the day.

This series:

Book 1) The Missing

Book 2) The Secret Friend

Book 3) The Dead Room

Book 4) The Soul Collectors

Warnings: mild gore, torture, spiders, rape threat