THE KILLER ON THE WALL by Emma Kavanagh, 5/5 ***** I really enjoyed this book - the close community setting and cold season really adds to the atmosphere in this serial killer thriller, and the two main narrations are strong female characters who are easy to get behind and whose points of view are really interesting. We sometimes see events from secondary characters' perspectives, and the suspicions are built upon gradually throughout the plot and with good reasoning. This makes the reveal at the end all the more surprising and hard to believe (in the sense that it's a real twist that you may not see coming). Without giving away any spoilers, I did wonder if readers may feel a bit cheated at the end because of this, but I only felt like this for a fleeting moment. The way Kavanagh has developed the characters and the theoretical insights they bring to the crime case really helps us to see that the outcome makes sense. The fact that all of the characters are very well written, and the plot develops with great suspense, makes this book hard to put down! Many thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for the ARC. DESCRIPTION: The first body comes as a shock The second brings horror The third signals the beginning of a nightmare When fifteen-year-old Isla Bell finds three bodies propped against Hadrian’s Wall, her whole world falls apart. In such a close-knit community, everyone knows the victims, and the man who did it. Twenty years on and Isla has dedicated her life to forensic psychology; studying the brains of serial killers, and even coming face to face with the convicted murderer who turned her world upside down. She is safe after all, with him behind bars. Then another body appears against the Wall. And another. As the nightmare returns and the body count rises, everyone in town is a suspect. Who is the Killer on the Wall?