"Dead Set" is the third in Will Carver's Detective January David series and for me the best of the three!
Having enjoyed the first but disappointed in the second I was worried about reading this one and it not being up to the original standards but.....wow! - it surpassed all expectations and I thoroughly enjoyed it, not being able to put it down at all.
"Dead Set" takes us back to January's wife Audrey David and the chilling Eames and I loved following all the new murders set between America and England.
Will Carver has a fabulous imagination and really knows how to engage the reader with a touch of the paranormal. Although you do need to suspend disbelief when January has his 'visions', these books are wonderfully entertaining and a very nice change to the run of the mill crime novels. Quite violent and descriptive in many ways this series is aimed at adults and overall I have really enjoyed following the detective, his wife, the sick twisted serial killer and the search for Cathy, January's young missing sister.
The denouement to the series (although I do hope for more) was beyond fabulous, I was gripped with the final few pages and stunned by one of the revelations. Well thought out and excellently crafted, I highly recommend this book and surreal series and will certainly be looking out for more by Will Carver in the future.

5 stars