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    The Bone Keeper
    The Bone Keeper
    The Bone Keeper
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Bone Keeper

    Written by Luca Veste

    Narrated by Elizabeth Sastre

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    'The Bone Keeper will corrupt your days and shatter your nights' Val McDermid `A dark and brilliant thriller from a writer who just gets better and better. The Bone Keeper is tense, chilling and HUGELY scary' Mark Billingham `Luca Veste proves you don't need to go to the Bayou or the Everglades to find something terrifying in the deep, dark woods. Sometimes evil is lurking just around the corner. An entertainingly nasty piece of work' Christopher Brookmyre What if the figure that haunted your nightmares as child, the myth of the man in the woods, was real? He'll slice your flesh. Your bones he'll keep. Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods, trying to find to the supposed home of The Bone Keeper. Only three returned. Now, a woman is found wandering the streets of Liverpool, horrifically injured, claiming to have fled the Bone Keeper. Investigating officer DC Louise Henderson must convince sceptical colleagues that this urban myth might be flesh and blood. But when a body is unearthed in the woodland the woman has fled from, the case takes on a much darker tone. The disappeared have been found. And their killer is watching every move the police make. `Candyman meets The Silence of the Lambs' Eva Dolan `Possibly the finest serial killer novel since Red Dragon' Steve Cavanagh `A chillingcrime read. Full of tension and with a sinister undercurrent, it will definitely get under your skin' Bibliophile bookclub `A sinuous and compelling tale of the power of a monstrous past, with a real sense of evil and the insidious influence of urban myth' Ramsey Campbell 'A chilling twist on a modern day myth this story had me hooked: eerie, terrifying and masterfully suspenseful' Stephanie Marland `Absolutely chilling. Don't read it at night, but make sure you do read it' Jenny Blackhurst 'Terrifying, gasp-out-loud, totally compelling and twisted... I loved it!" Miranda Dickinson 'Seriously creepy with a killer twist - Luca Veste goes from strength to strength' Mark Edwards `Creepy and compelling. The serial killer thriller of the year'Mason Cross 'Urban legend meets serial killer thriller - a terrifying book that walks the line between crime and horror, not unlike Thomas Harris's best work' Stuart Neville 'The Bone Keeper is everything you want in a killer thriller. Creepy, addictive and guaranteed to make you think twice before walking into the woods. Perfectly terrifying' Amanda Jennings `One to watch for 2018. A terrific and terrifying serial killer thriller that will keep you up all night - you'll be gripped by the storyline and too scared to go to sleep' Daily Record
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781980002437
    The Bone Keeper
    Author

    Luca Veste

    Luca Veste was the editor of the Spinetingler Award-nominated charity anthology Off The Record and co-editor of True Brit Grit. He lives in Liverpool with his wife and two young daughters.

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      The Bone Keeper – A Brilliant Scouse Noir ThrillerThe King of Scouse Noir, Luca Veste, who has become well known in recent years for his Merseyside Police Thrillers that centre around DI Murphy and DS Rossi, is now back with a standalone thriller. Once again using Liverpool and Merseyside as the backdrop to this excellent thriller, not only a thriller but a brilliant thriller built around a serial killer.Louise Henderson is a detective constable in the Merseyside Police and tends to work alongside Detective Sergeant Paul Slater, but Slater is aware that Louise is not telling him the whole story about herself. She has a reputation for exploding sometimes but that is something many in the force are capable of, especially when dealing with the dregs of society.Louise and Slater are called out to an incident where a woman who has been badly beaten and sliced up has turned up, running a long a street where she collapsed. Both get to the scene thinking they are dealing with a routine domestic assault that has spiralled further out of control. Little did they know what they had just walked in to, especially when the victim tells them it was the Bone Keeper. Both are sceptical, as they know that the Bone Keeper is nothing more than an urban legend.Little do they know that as they head into the woods, what they will uncover, as it begins to give up its dark secrets. Louise has a strange feeling about what they are finding, and Slater is sure she is not telling him something that might be vital to the investigation. Both, the live victim and Louise know there is something they must do while at the same time not revealing that important detail to the rest of the world.As the bodies begin to stack up, they seem to have a prime suspect, but cannot find him but when people are being murdered in their beds that suspect needs to be found. As Louise faces her own private hell and her history the killer becomes clear, but she knows she will always have to keep silent, even if she is afforded a new change to start over.The Bone Keeper will keep you on edge throughout the course of the book, and as you get deeper you want to know the skeletons that Louise has hidden. Will that skeleton be her downfall or a key to solve the case?This really is one of the best thrillers that you can read this year, as it is dark, disturbing, sick and twisted. Digging deep in to the twisted psyche of a serial killer on a journey of discovery, with bodies piling up. The Bone Keeper will keep you gripped from beginning to end, highly unpredictable well-constructed thriller.