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I was left suitably disturbed after putting this book down, it got so dark I felt like I needed to go and run in a field of daisies in a sunny place somewhere. Absolutely stunning book, terrifying, mind bending, twisted, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.I love the mind of Steve Mosby. This book is like a mash up of a really good crime novel with a touch of intelligent horror weaved through, enough to keep you on tender hooks, and wanting to keep the bedside light on. The ending of this book just had me stunned into silent shock.Women are going missing, when their dead bodies turn up (the ones that do) they are drained of all their blood. All of it. Someone is draining it and getting off on their blood. It's got the police determined to find the killer, but it's not proving easy. When Alex hears that his friend Sarah has been killed and they can't find her body, he rushes back from his years of travelling around the world, escaping the suicide death of his wife a few years earlier. Worse still, Alex's brother is in prison and confessed to the murder of Sarah. Things could not be much worse for Alex. The book just goes to another level in relation to plot, a bizarre underground fetish scheme of the most disturbing nature is uncovered when Alex begins to investigate, he knows he's treading on dangerous ground but he gets given cryptic messages from his brother in prison and finds research that Sarah was doing before she vanished. What they uncovered will make you stop and breathe, and think, and breathe. Seriously deranged but very clever plot writing. I can't rave enough.I don't want to give away too much but this is such an intelligent crime book, it's not obvious in the slightest, it threw up surprise after horrific surprise at me, and I have read a lot of crime novels as it's my most read genre, this is something really different. There is a dark element, a creepiness, something so rotten and so shocking that it truly did take me aback and I don't get like that reading often. I thought I had read it all in fact. I needed a shower after reading this, the stench of death and corpses seemed to permeate off the pages. The police are on the case, Alex is on the case, their paths were going to cross at some point, but will the killer with the taste for blood be found? What is this underground fetish group all about? And what will they do to protect their dark and disturbing secrets. This is one of those novels where I thought to myself "Did Steve have to research this stuff and is IT really out there and people are into it?" and you know what, I am too scared to Google it but I bet it's rampant. Very scary.The book is chillingly good, it really did send shivers up and down my spine, I could not stop reading it, it's a novel that reveals more and more as it goes but you cannot put it together, it's too complex but once it all becomes clear it's dynamic, it blew me away, where Steve Mosby gets his ideas from I have no idea, but this was bloody brilliant (pun intended).There is evil going on, dark acts, involving many, this is not a simple serial killer case at all, to share more includes spoilers, and I so want to tell you about the rest of it because it's so darn good. If you like to be a bit creeped out whilst enjoying a good crime novel and are not afraid of the depths of human depravity, you will love this. I did, absolutely one of the best books I have read in years. Very, very clever writing. Read it and you will see what I mean.Great storytelling, fantastic complex characters, brilliant plot, unique concepts, chilling moments, dark, depraved and so, so good. Sheer escapism for the hours it held me in it's tight grip.