Tooth And Claw – Nigel McCrery

Description

Tooth and Claw by Nigel McCrery is a chilling and fast-paced crime thriller that introduces readers to DCI Mark Lapslie, a detective unlike any other. Battling a rare neurological condition called synaesthesia, which distorts his senses and keeps him from regular police work, Lapslie is reluctantly pulled back into the field when a string of unconnected and increasingly brutal murders grip the nation. The killer, Carl Whittley, is a cold and calculating predator with no apparent motive—only a growing obsession with inventive, horrifying death.

What makes Whittley terrifying isn’t just the violence of his crimes, but the randomness of his victims. A famous TV presenter, a faceless commuter—no one is safe, and each killing is crafted to be more shocking than the last. As the body count rises, Lapslie’s intuitive instincts kick in, putting him on a collision course with a murderer who has just one target left in mind: a policeman. Himself.

Tooth and Claw is the first in the DCI Mark Lapslie series—a must-read for fans of gritty police procedurals, twisted serial killer plots, and detectives with real psychological depth.