#BookReview Die Last by Tony Parsons @arrowpublishing @TonyParsonsUK @FreshFiction

Die Last: by Tony Parsons
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside twelve women are discovered - all dead from hypothermia.

But when DC Max Wolfe looks in the cab of truck, he finds thirteen passports.

One woman has survived. Where is she? And what sort of danger is she in?

The hunt for her will take Max into the dark heart of a terrifying world where nothing and nobody is safe ...

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There are some series that become so special for you that the characters feel like old friends. The Max Wolfe series by Tony Parsons is one of them for me. Now, it has been a while since I read the previous book in the series, but it didn't take me long to get back into the life of Max and his daughter Scout and of course their dog Sam.

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#BookReview Murder Bag by Tony Parsons @TonyParsonsUK @Bokfabriken (SWE/ENG)

The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

SWEDISH REVIEW

Kriminalpolisen Max Wolfe är alla mördares mardröm en impulsiv, egensinnig och envis yrkesman. När två män brutalt mördas i Londons West End misstänker polisen att det är en seriemördare som härjar, och Wolfe sätts på fallet. Det första offret är en rik bankman som under många år bedragit sin hustru, medan det andra offret är en hemlös man. Till en början verkar mordoffren inte ha något gemensamt, men det visar sig att de båda männen tjugosju år tidigare gick på samma skola. Vad kan ha utlöst mördarens besinningslösa vrede, och varför är just de här männen utvalda?

Mördarens metoder och offer diskuteras flitigt i sociala medier och det är ingen tvekan om att mördaren själv följer varje steg. När någon utger sig för att vara mördaren på internet tar spekulationerna verkligen fart, och Wolfe inser att både han själv och dottern Scout är i skottlinjen.

Murder bag är första boken om kriminalinspektören Max Wolfe i London.

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Innan jag läste denna bok så läste jag novellen Dead Time vars berättelse utspelas mellan denna bok och nästa. Jag föll verkligen för Max och hans dotter Scout direkt. Och vi får inte glömma hunden Stan. 

Murder Bag är en riktigt bladvändare och jag kunde sluta läsa. Handlingen är väldigt mörk men man får små ljusglimtar tack vare Max och Scout. Max är en ensamstående pappa och man får reda på vad som hände med Scouts mamma i handlingen. Denna del av boken jag mig rejält arg. Morden som begås i boken är brutala och det var ibland svårt att läsa vissa stycken pga av det. Man tror att man blir van när man läser mycket thrillers, men en del av mig finner fortfarande visa saker osmakligt att läsa.

Murder Bag är välskriven och fängslande med flertalet överraskande vändningar.

Tack till Bokfabriken för recensionsexemplaret!

ENGLISH REVIEW

The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. If you like crime-novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this.

Twenty years ago seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable.

Detective Max Wolfe has recently arrived in the Homicide division of London's West End Central, 27 Savile Row.

Soon he is following the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the internet and all the way to the corridors of power.

As the bodies pile up, Max finds the killer's reach getting closer to everything - and everyone - he loves.

Soon he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life ...

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The first time I became acquainted with Max Wolfe was in the short novella Dead Time that is set between this book and the next one; The Slaughter Man. I liked him and his family; daughter Scout and dog Stan immediately.

This is a really good book, it's very dark but so engrossing and I just adore little Scout and Stan. Max is a single father and you get to know why a bit later in the book and let me tell you, the knowledge of why made me really pissed off. The murders are brutal and even I found some parts hard to read and I thought that I was quite used to read about the awful things men to each other, but it seems that there are still parts of me that find some readings hard.

The Murder Bag was a well written and captivating book, full of twists all the way until the end of the book.

Thanks to Bokfabriken for the review copy!

The Hanging Club by Tony Parsons

The Hanging Club by Tony Parsons
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

BLURB:

A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them by the neck until dead.

SENTENCED TO DEATH
- The gang member who's abused vulnerable girls.
- The wealthy drunk driver who's mowed down a child.
- The hate preacher calling for the murder of British soldiers.

As the bodies pile up and riots explode across the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe hunts a gang of killers who many believe to be heroes.

And discovers that the lust for revenge starts very close to home ...

REVIEW

It was quite wonderful to once again return to DC Max Wolfe world. There are some series where characters really make a deep impression on me and this is certainly one. Max is probably not the only man ever to have to raise a daughter by himself. However, I find his situation sadder just because of why he is a single father raising a daughter. A situation I won't reveal, you just have to read the books. 

The case in this book is one that really makes you think about justice and what happens when the law fails and the ones that should be punished is let go too easy. When people take the law into their own hands and it just seems so right that they do. When bad people are finally punished. It's one thing when the police are hunting down dangerous criminals, but in this book are they trying to catch a gang of people that are really doing what most people in the book feel is probably just. Since the capital punishment is gone in the UK are the group taking the law into their own hands by hanging men they feel should have been punished with death.

DC Max Wolfe is the one that has to take charge of the case when his boss has to focus on a personal crisis and the case will get very close to him and it will take an ugly turn that I never expected. It's a great book, a book that makes you think, but thanks to Max daughter Scout and their dog Stan are there also some lighter moments. And, there is a woman that Max met that could bring love back into his life, but of course, there are obstacles...

This is a favorite series of mine and I'm looking forward to next year and see what will happen next for Max and his family.

Thanks to Random House UK, Cornerstone for providing me with a free copy for an honest review! 

Dead Time by Tony Parsons

Dead Time by Tony Parsons
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An exclusive short story featuring DC Max Wolfe from Tony Parsons, the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Murder Bag.

One am, Boxing Day. Snow falls, the city sleeps.

Not DC Max Wolfe. He is looking out of his loft apartment at the deserted streets below.

A van has just drawn up. Two men get out. Dressed in black and wearing ski-masks, they are dragging something.

It’s a man. Half-naked. Half-dead. But still alive.

Not for much longer.

Soon Max Wolfe is hunting a gang of killers who decapitate their victims

And this time it’s personal...

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I have Tony Parsons book The Murder Bag (The first Max Wolfe book) on my iPad that I'm going to read soon. But I thought I would start with this short novella first and it was actually a very good way of getting to know Max Wolfe and his young daughter Scout. Reading short novellas as an intro for book series can be a very good idea, well as long as you can get into the story easily.

I enjoyed this short novella very much, the story was interesting and I really liked Max Wolfe and Scout. I'm looking forward to reading The Murder Bag as soon as I have time for it.

I received this copy from the publisher through NetGalley return for an honest review!