Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Bloodless

SERIES: Serial Investigations #1

AUTHOR: Rhiannon D’Averc

PUBLISHER: self-published

LENGTH: 298 pages

RELEASE DATE: April 29, 2019

BLURB:

How do you solve a murder…

… When you’re the prime suspect?

A body cut up into pieces and left in Highgate Wood. It sounds like the most exciting case that private detectives Ram and Will have had to deal with since leaving their FBI training and returning to London.

As each new body is piled up amongst the trees, the stakes get higher – and Serial Investigations London embraces their first real challenge.

But Ram’s lifestyle – staying out all days of the week, drinking too much, and having sex with a different man every night – soon catches up with him when the police realise there’s just one link that connects the bodies.

And it’s him.

Will faces a battle around the clock to prevent his best friend from being put away for life – and while the two of them face their own demons, there’s a secret hanging over their heads that might just bring it all crashing down.

If you’re a fan of BBC’s Luther, Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole, or sharply witty gay men, you’ll love Serial Investigations. Jump into the action from the very beginning with Bloodless, the first book in a series you won’t dare to put down.

REVIEW:

As far as mysteries, this is one heck of one, and I’m intrigued for sure by this series. My only issue, is I don’t like Ram. I know why he’s doing what he’s doing, but sometimes he goes way too far with Will with his comments, and I don’t like it. They both went through the same thing and it’s not been easy for either of them. You’d think they’d band together more, but it only seems to hurt.

Will and Ram (Julius) basically ran back home to London, after an event in California happened. It’s not fully clear as to what yet, because neither is dealing with it. Will is not eating and becoming……ghostly, almost. And Ram is drinking heavily at all hours of the day and screwing anything that moves. But they catch 2 cases to work, and it all starts to turn south, when one of those cases has made Ram the lead suspect. Because he was one of the last people to see these men alive. After their one night stand. Will is doing all he can to clear Ram’s name and finish this case. But after they find out who it is, things don’t turn out as easy as they thought it would. And one of them may not make it out alive.

This is one heck of a murder mystery. There’s so much involved as well. With their pasts, that we don’t know much about yet, to the PTSD they are both trying to cope with. Now add the murder investigation and things are cropping up that they are trying to avoid. So it’s so much going on, but it’s a good busy. It’s not too much, you know. It’s just enough everywhere to keep you on your toes and make you want to constantly keep reading. And believe me, I did. I love Will’s mind. And how it works. And when Ram is sober, they actually are a good team. But what shatters me about these two, is that for best friends, they are hiding an awful lot from each other. There are so many secrets on Will’s side and Ram is just basically floating in the wind. Whatever happened to them, it’s obvious it was traumatic. But instead of dealing with it, they are taking it out on each other. So that complicates things a bit as they are trying to solve this case. But what stinks even more, is that it took something drastic again, to get them to be somewhat normal with each other again. And I hate that for them. It’s obvious they care for each other so much and they work so well together. They had it figured out long before the police did. And because of Ram’s flings, he even knew info that the police didn’t.

So I’m anxious to see how these next books are going to go. If the secrets are finally going to come out, if they work on what is traumatizing them, and if they get more work for what they did. I hope it works out for these guys. And I hope Ram gets help. Soon.

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