There’s a killer stalking the streets of Tyneside, but do their “victims” actually want

to die? Is ‘The Angel of Death’—as the tabloids are quick to dub them—actually offering a service; a kind of off-book assisted dying scheme for the terminally ill? But whatever it is they’re doing, it’s illegal. Soon on the case is DCI Jack Parker, who has a special interest in the investigation. He himself has early-onset dementia, something he’s managed to hide from all but those closest to him. Since his diagnosis, however, assisted dying has been at the forefront of his thoughts. But in the here and now, Jack has a team to marshal and an Angel’s wings to clip. This is the third book in the DCI Jack Parker series, and, as with the first two, Trevor Wood presents readers with a sensitive portrait of a man increasingly struggling with his condition. But the author has also given Jack an intriguing, rollicking case to solve, and it grips right to the final knockings. Gritty but never dour, and leavened with a dark humour, ‘The Angel of Death’ is Wood at the very top of his game. RM

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Orenda Books