A really good read, Enjoyed the main characters and the twists and turns. I thought i had sussed the killer several times only to be wrong footed.

Lots of twists and turns in this murder mystery to keep you captured as Jack and his team try to solve their cases. One of the things I really liked about htis book was the character development. There was a good balance between the relationships and character development and the case and getting clues.

It was fine to read as a standalone but I think reading the whole series in order would add even more to the book.

Good story with a thrilling plot, and interesting characters. A new author to me I found this to be an engrossing read. Will recommend this page turner to friends!!

What a sensational book this is, with a plot that unrolls like clockwork, and simmering tension that never lets up. Betrayal, double-crossing and the most delicious sting in the tail... I couldn't put it down.

This is the second book in the series featuring Detective Jack Mackintosh but it read well as a stand-alone. We get to know about Jack’s background and how he is a dedicated police officer with a tough past. He and his brother were taken into care after their mother committed suicide and it was Jack who found her body. Jack is called out to a murder scene where a young woman is found strangled in the park wearing only one shoe. When Jack finds a shoe nearby it doesn’t match the lost shoe of the victim. The Olympics are due to take place in a week’s time, and as ire bodies turn up, Jack and his team are under pressure to solve this case. This is an excellent crime thriller that had me hooked from the start with plenty of red herrings,
Thanks to Netgalley and Joffe Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

Thankyou to Netgalley, the publisher and Michelle Kidd for allowing me to read this ARC.
This book had me on the end of my seat and made me kept guessing.
This book had twists and turns that you do not see coming.
It had the full package, murder, action, suspense and mystery.
I quite loved the front cover.
This book is great for anyone who lives suspensful thriller.
The only thing i found a little frustrating is the formatting of the kindle download was messed up and made it hard to follow but i am glad that i followed through and finished it.
Thankyou again.
4/5 stars

This is the first book I have read by Michelle Kidd featuring Detective Jack Mackintosh and his team and I will definitely read more as it was excellent. Women's strangled bodies are found with a shoe nearby not belonging to the victim and the investigation begins. This novel keeps the reader enthralled until the final pages, and one cannot put the book down.

A fantastic read that left me on the edge of my seat. I couldn't stop reading and I didn't want too. I was left guessing

Seven Days to Die by Michelle Kidd is the second book in the DI Jack MacIntosh series and this was the fist book I had read within series and I found it very easy to get into. I loved it especially as it kept me guessing till the end and it had great twist and turns throughout. The characters were excellent and I loved the main character DI Jack MacIntosh

When a young woman is found strangled in Hyde Park.in London and she is only wearing only one shoe.

Detective Jack MacIntosh finds another black stiletto, with a diamante buckle glinting in the early morning sun. But this shoes doesn’t belong to this victim.

Then, two days later, another young woman is found strangled to death in nearby Green Park. Wearing just one shoe which is the matching stiletto found by the first victim in Hyde Park. But, hidden in the long grass beside the body, the police uncover a low-heeled court shoe.

Who does this shoe belong to?

There is a brutal killer who strangles young women, always leaves their bodies strewn across famous London’s parks.
This is a killer who leaves his next victim’s shoe beside the body of his last one. Detective Jack MacIntosh has seven days to find the truth.

The clock is ticking and Detective Jack MacIntosh and his team have to find the owner of the court shoe before it’s far, far too late.

At the same time, Detective Jack MacIntosh is fighting his own demons. Demons which rise up from the past and threaten to cloud his judgement just when he needs it most.

Will Detective Jack MacIntosh and his team catch this killer and make the parks in the London area safe again?

This book was Excellent and I highly recommend Seven days to Die.

This is the second in the DI MacIntosh series, but can easily read as a standalone. Kidd is a new to me author and this series is definitely one I'm now emotionally invested in.

The plot was compelling and the red herrings kept me on my toes throughout. It's told from multiple POV and spans across several different locations.

Seven Days to Die is a cracking police procedural that's engaging and entertaining. It has some strong characters and I'm looking forward to reading more about them.

Many thanks to Zooloo's Book Tours for my tour spot.

Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐

(This was originally published as book 2 in the series under the title “Seven Days”).
Two women’s bodies have been found in London parks a week apart, both strangled but with no forensic clues and no other links. Bizarrely one shoe belonging to the second victim was found at the first crime scene and now another strange shoe has been found with the second body. DI Jack MacIntosh and his very capable team of DS Chris Cooper and DC Amanda Cassidy are on the case, with two awful thoughts. Firstly that the killer must have already had his second victim when he dumped the first body and also that a third victim is highly likely to appear soon. With one week to go before the 2012 Olympics are to be staged in the city, Chief Supt Dougie King makes it clear to Jack that he has only seven days to find and catch a serial killer. We also read about Hannah, kept captive and chained in a cellar by a man – a man who once in 1998 still had a wife and daughter. And with the increase in workload, the team have a cuckoo in their nest in the form of extra help, the very unlikeable and downright awkward DS Robert Carmichael from Sussex police – so what’s his game then? As the seven days tick by and with help from a profiler, will Jack make it in time?
Jack is a great character, still fighting the nightmares from when he was only four years old and found his mother’s hanged body. Cooper and Cassidy are also very likeable, as is Dougie King, who is a good boss to them all, especially Jack. The book is filled with well-drawn characters and if you are looking for a great story full of suspense with a cracking plot and a twisted killer, look no further!! 5*

I really liked this story. It definitely kept me interested and I had a hard time putting it down. I just wanted to find out who did it. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and hoping to see more of them in the future.

It's seven days until the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics and there's a serial killer on the loose.

So DI Jack Mackintosh of the Metropolitan Police and his team, including newly drafted in DS Cassidy have been tasked to find them and QUICK.

Because the eyes of the world are on London and the pressure for no bad press is immense.

But is DI Mackintosh with his demons really the right man for the job?

And with a killer who likes to play games. A dual timeline and intriguing characters. This was an engaging and enjoyable mystery. That certainly had me guessing at times.

Seven Days to Die is the first book in the new series featuring Detective Jack Macintosh.

A woman has been found strangled in a park in London with one shoe on and another nearby, oddly it does not match the shoe the victim is wearing. The shoe matches a previous murder indicating that newly found shoe will match another murder victim yet to be found. Jack realizes that there may be a serial killer on the loose. Jack will be pressured to find the killer before the Olympics begin in seven days.

This story has some great characters to help with the community in the story. Isabel owns a coffee shop with pastries, and an art studio in the back to offset the cost of the rent. Fantastic idea and sounds like something we all might like to try.

Jack is a single man and due to his past is fine with staying single. When he was four, he found his mother after she committed suicide, his younger brother was two and has no real memories of his mother. But they both are struggling with the past interfering with the present. Jack is undergoing therapy to try to understand why he feels the way he does.

Most of the characters have had huge losses in their past. Some are not dealing with them well which adds to down to earth characters being much more interesting.

The only negative is a cliff hanger type of ending. We know it is going to be a series, so no reason to have an ending that leads to the next book. However, the cliffhanger ending is not one that leaves you hanging in order to resolve the first book.

I did like this book and am looking forward to reading the next one. Even with its 436 pages the chapters are short, it actually is a pretty fast read. Obviously, there are several twists and turns that take the investigation the wrong direction, but I wrongly suspected these directions might be the right way only to realize I had gone down the path the writer intended. It was an entertaining but hard to put down read.

The One Shoe killer - only he wasn't given that name as the police didn't release that detail to the police. A slow boiler. Several red herrings along the way. Not a book that made much of an impression on me to be honest. I only finished it yesterday and can't remember who did it.

Okay book for people who like slow boilers.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher I read a free advance review copy of the book. This review is voluntary, honest and my own opinion.

I liked the main characters, even Carmichael! I found it an interesting story, although still had some questions by the end, especially the motive. The red herrings kept the story flowing, as did the different time lapses. One of the coincidences later in the book seemed a bit ridiculous though. I look forward to reading more about the main characters if this becomes a series.

The format on my kindle was awful. The chapters were all bunched together. The format was too annoying for me to enjoy as much as I wanted to. The storyline was good and interesting, and I’d like to read more from this author, hopefully a physical book though.

The formatting of the kindle download was kind of messed up and really hard to follow. I assume this will be fixed for the final print.

I really liked how each chapter/scene was started by listing the time and location. It made it way easier to follow the timeline of the book.

I do think there are too many POV's in the book. It is really difficult to know who each scene is following and makes it confusing. I also feel the characters were all very boring and one dimensional. Even the main character, Jack, had very little depth to him.

I also feel the detectives are very incompetent. I mean how did they miss the "pairs" of shoes in Saunders closet?? That was a really big oversight to not notice they were pairs and not single shoes

I didn't like how almost every character that was a suspect had either lost their wife and child or no longer saw them. It felt very repetitive every time we met someone knew and heard the same thing about them. I wish the author got more creative and came up with different ways to make the characters suspect than that.

The ending was also a little lackluster.

Detective Jack MacIntosh has seven days to catch a serial killer. The killer brutally murders his victims, leaving a shoe of the next victim at the scene.
A revised edition of a previous release. Bit of a slow burner, told from several points of view over different timeframes. A perfectly enjoyable read, just need to persevere.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Joffe Books for an advance copy of Seven Days to Die, the first novel to feature DI Jack MacIntosh of the Met, set in 2012.

There is a serial killer on the loose in London in the week before the Olympics. He is strangling young women and leaving a shoe from his next victim near the body of his most recent victim. It is up to DI Jack MacIntosh and his team

Seven Days to Die is not my kind of read and I struggled to get through it. It never held my attention, it never called me back when I put it down and eventually I lost any slight interest I might have had in the characters.

To put this in perspective I like a sharp, focused procedural with an emphasis on investigating. This is a long, rambling read which focuses as much on seemingly random characters as it does on the investigation, probably more so as the investigation team consists of Jack and 2.5 detectives (the 0.5, DS Carmichael, a transfer from Sussex Police, is frequently awol with no explanation). It switches constantly from one point of view to another, often just as the reader is invested in what’s happening to the current character. On the upside each change is carefully annotated with a date and location so there is no confusion about whose point of view is featured.

To be fair there is a good story hidden in the extraneities. It’s not particularly original but it offers a well hidden perpetrator and several suspects. It heats up at the end as a suspect comes into focus, but again the tension and momentum are slowed by perspective changes.

I think that Seven Days to Die will appeal to readers who like a more psychological approach.