In Cold Blood: A fast paced, gripping crime thriller with a twist (DI Amy Winter Book 5)

Please excuse the bloody it's the only word without actually swearing that I might get some attention. This is the second time of reading this book. Having been so in awe with Caroline Mitchell book and a ending I don't think anyone could HAVE predicted or imagined. That my jaw hi the deck and for a while I wanted to savour the book. My thoughts were so amazed at one particular thing I genuinely didn't actually believe had happened. I knew it hard but it left me feel in thought at the time my heads was still trying to process something. Unfortunately I can not say what. Let's just say it's a I expected twist no one could have foreseen but a twist so suddenly coming out of the blue as most twist and turns do. So I am genuinely sorry both I totally refuse any sloilers now I have said time and time again this book is definitely a must Read. So putting all others I have said it to I still stand wholeheartedy by that However because I was so feel in thought I forgot to post my review. I read it the first day of release I stayed awake because I really could not put it down. But rather post my review I wanted to read it again . Now in my life once I have bread a book once I never every read a book twice and someone my age have lived by that .the first ever book I read twice I am going back well over 35years to a book written by Gerald Seymour called Harry's Game. Now I can say this one. Perhaps if they pure brilliance. Just a genius writer this certainly as to be my book of decades to say by God it's not just worth one read but two. Only a I a fantastic story and extremely genius of a writer can truly get me to read a book twice this is a pure definition of a genius of a writer she is. Now this as to be a most enjoyable book I. Years and most definitely a Must read

WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED…DI Amy Winter and her team are working on their latest case and this is a tough one. They are searching for a couple who abduct women and hunt them down for fun, each day they inflict injuries upon their victims and if they haven't escaped by day four, they don't make it out alive. Amy is five months pregnant with DCI Donovan's child and he wants nothing more than to make it public but Amy is holding back. When the abductors call asking to meet Amy, Donovan sends a decoy in her place but, unbeknown to him, they are one step ahead and abduct Amy from outside her own flat and the hunt begins. With no known location and very little to go on, can Donovan persuade Lillian Grimes, Amy's serial killer mother, to help him and, if so, will they find Amy before time runs out?In Cold Blood is the latest in the DI Amy Winter series and it's so good to see her and the team return! This one, as always, hits the ground running, Mitchell knows how to keep Amy on her toes and us readers on the edge of our seats. The plot is unique and well crafted, with great characters and the perpetrators are pure evil. It was great to see more of Denny, who was first introduced to us in book four, Flesh and Blood. This story is action packed from beginning to end, with some great twists along the way and I was absorbed into the trials and tribulations faced by Amy, Donovan and the team from the very first page. Once again Mitchell treats us to a tense and nailbiting rollercoaster ride where I was praying that Amy managed to escape her captors. The author has smashed this one out of the park and it's safe to say this is her best one yet, in my opinion. As I've said before with her others, this one can be read as a standalone but, I'd recommend they are read in order to get an understanding and background of the characters.

Another thrilling addition to the Amy Winter series!As disturbing as it is gripping.I devoured it in one afternoon, and I'm already hoping for a 6th book! So invested in all of the characters, I can't wait for more.

I have only just found Caroline Mitchell's books and her D. I Amy Winters series. I rarely write reviews worried I will say something to spoil it for others. However I have been so impressed by this set of five books I have to comment.All the books are very well written, complex and interesting to the point it is very difficult to stop reading. So much happens and the characters are well thought out and realistically loveable...the 'goodies' that is! The 'baddies' they are very bad! I've read and enjoyed many thrillers and police procedurals and mostly can guess the outcomes and those who prove to be guilty. In this five books however I've never been so surprised on so many occasions.Well done and I'm about to delve deeper in your selection on offer. Thank you xx

I love the DI Amy Winter series it is my favourite of Caroline Mitchell's closely followed by her Detective Ruby Preston series.If you haven't read any of the previous books in the Amy Winter story I would absolutely recommend you do (and if you loved this and haven't already done so, read the Ruby Preston series too).Firstly, they are a good read and secondly, although you can read this as a standalone, I don't know if I would recommend it. There is so much more to this storey; the complex family ties of the Grimeses and decades of issues and history that only the other books will give you context on. Without the previous books I don't think I would have the understand and appreciation that I do have for most of the events throughout and the characters in this book.My only gripes, is that I couldn't find an Audible to accompany this latest instalment and Emmy Ellis of Studioenp, needs to be careful when she is editing as she has missed some typos!!.... sorry, it's a pet peeve!

Gripping read yet again. I've loved this series, the back story of Amy's childhood plays a big part in all the books and this one is the conclusion, therefore I recommend you read the previous books to fully appreciate and understand this one. A very tense read with Amy in grave danger made even more so because of her condition. Good twist at the end which will no doubt please all that have followed this series. Just sad that it's come to an end, would love it to continue.