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The Killing Pit

The Start of an Adrenaline Pumping New Crime Series for 2021 from the Author of One Last Prayer for the Rays (A Jake Pettman Thriller, Book 1)

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A broken ex-detective. A corrupt chief of police. A merciless drug lord.

And a missing child.

Running from a world which wants him dead, ex-detective Sergeant Jake Pettman journeys to the isolated town of Blue Falls, Maine, home of his infamous murderous ancestors.

But Jake struggles to hide from who he is, and when a child disappears, he finds himself drawn into an investigation that shares no parallels to anything he has ever seen before.

Held back by a chief of police plagued and tormented by his own secrets, Jake fights for the truth.

All the way to the door of Jotham MacLeoid.

An insidious megalomaniac who feeds his victims to a Killing Pit.

And the terrifying secrets that lie within.

The Killing Pit is an adrenaline-pumping crime thriller novel from the Amazon best-selling author of One Last Prayer for the Rays, and the DCI Yorke series. Perfect for fans of Chris Carter, James Patterson, Chris Brookmyre, and Stuart Macbride.

©2021 Wes Fletcher-Markin (P)2021 Wes Fletcher-Markin Crime Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Exciting Scary Detective
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There is a good, albeit brutal story, but the narration didn’t work for me. Our hero, supposedly a big tough English ex detective speaks tough words but the delivery is unconvincing, Jack Reacher he’s not….., he just sounds a bit wet and up himself. All the women sounded the same and needed to give up the smoking habit.
I see others liked the narration , but it stopped me from engaging with the characters . I may read book 2 but I won’t be listening to any more in this series

Not for me

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Couldn't stop reading , look forward to a film . Bough th rest of the series .

Hooked

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Absolutely superb, great characters and depth with a superb seedy storyline, like a great box set in a book. Onto his next

Excellent

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This book introduces us to Jake Pettman, who turns out to be quite the interesting character, he's slightly less complicated than the villain of this book however, who is a real monster and confounds Jake throughout the story, the end was really quite bizarre but thoroughly enjoyable.

If you're a Wes Markin fan then you'll probably love this book, if you've never tried a Wes Markin book before then this is as good a place to start as any.

Great story

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In a similar vein to the DCI MIke Yorke series from which this is an offshoot, the story follows one of the characters from the Yorke series who is now on the run in America. As with the other novels this is a novel with some extreme violence, evil sociopaths and a well-meaning hero. Action and suspense make it worth a read. Well written and expertly narrated.

One pet peeve of mine is that I do wish when authors add books to sites they wouldn't try to cram a description into the title. The title of this shows as: The Killing Pit The Start of an Adrenaline Pumping New Crime Series for 2021 from the Author of One Last Prayer for the Rays (A Jake Pettman Thriller, Book 1).
A better title would be The Killing Pit (A Jake Pettman Thriller, Book 1) with the rest of the info in the description, not the title.

Gory and violent

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