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Book ID Asin: B01ATSFE1W
Book Title: All Saints: Murder on the Mersey (Mersey Murder Mysteries Book 2)
Book Author: Brian L. Porter
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Book Review

Name: Tripower53
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very good reading!
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 29, 2017
Review: 4.25 out of 5 stars

Father Gerald Byrne returns to Liverpool after several years away to be the pastor of St. Luke’s. Along with that responsibility comes also being the chaplain to Speke Hill Orphanage. Father Byrne was placed there as a seven-year old child along with his sister following the deaths of their parents.

Detective Inspector Andy Ross, Sergeant Clarissa “Izzy” Drake and Detective Constable Derek McLennan of the Murder Investigation Team, the portly pathologist Dr. William Nugent are all called to the scene of a horrifying mutilation and murder in St. Matthew’s graveyard. The resident priest, a Father Michael Donovan who found him, could not identify the man. When the victim’s fingerprints show him to be one Matthew “Razor” Remington whose most recent arrest was for sexual abuse, a potential for the murder is uncovered.

The team now has several people that they wish to interview: Remington’s co-workers, friends, acquaintances, and the woman he raped and so on. Hopefully, this will give them some viable leads to follow.

When another man in killed in a similar manner on the following day in the St. Mark’s graveyard, Andy and Izzy go to interview the rector Simon Blake and his wife Cilla. The wife saw a white van outside the church. It is a slim but rather elusive lead. After Simon suggests that there may be two killers due to the weight of hoisting the unfortunate man to his death, the CSI discovers a set of small footprints. The murderer now turns into two and the second set belongs to a woman.

When the second man turns out to be one Mark Proctor, a teacher at Speke Hill, our story returns to Father Gerald Byrne. For he was also a student and rival of Proctor while they were both at the school.
The reader will recall that the first victim, Remington, was also a student at Speke Hill.

The reader is given tantalizing little clues as to the identity of the killer and the reason why. Then a third man is killed and the killer appears to have made some mistakes with this murder. As the book now speeds towards a conclusion, the suspense is building. Will the police catch the killer before anyone else is murdered?

There are a few omitted words and problems with grammar in this book. It doesn’t detract from the story very much, but they are there nonetheless. More irritating was the mixing up of the manes of places and people. St. Luke’s became St. Mark’s and Mark Proctor became Mark Bolton. Overall the book is very well written (save for the obvious mistakes), and plotted. It is written with the suspense starting out immediately, and continuing throughout the book. I enjoy the descriptions of the relationships between Andy’s team members and especially the interplay between Andy and Izzy. I like this novel very much and look forward to reading the next one in the series.

Name: Martha A. Cheves
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The poor bloody priest" Father Gerald Byrne
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 12, 2016
Review: Detective Inspector Andy Ross pulled the unmarked police Mondeo to a halt, its right side wheels pulled up on the pavement outside St. Matthew's Church in Norris Green in an effort to avoid restricting the traffic flow along Brewer Street... There were already two police patrol cars parked on the street, together with another pool car identical to his own which he knew would have brought his assistant, Sergeant Clarissa, (Izzie) Drake and Detective Constable Derek McLennan to the scene... As he neared the scene, Ross could see Dr. Nugent on his knees, his assistant, Francis Lees beside him, both men obviously intent on carrying out their initial examination of the body... "Oh, my God," Ross exclaimed as he drew closer to the scene... "I told you, sir," his sergeant said, quietly. "Yes, but this... this is, well, nothing short of bloody monstrous... the victim, a man in his mid to late fifties, has been almost totally eviscerated... "Who found him, Izzie?" "The poor bloody priest"

Father Gerald Byrne, along with his sister, grew up in Speke Hill, an orphanage that was run by the Roman Catholic Church. He developed a deep interest in theology and the Church which eventually brought him into the priesthood. After years of traveling all over the world it also brought him full circle back to St. Luke's where he would be not only their priest but also the priest of Speke Hill. But, shortly after his arrival the murders started. Bodies are being placed in various cemeteries after being totally disembowel and mutilated.

This book took me down a very winding road! As much as I tried to determine who was carrying out the brutal murders, the harder it was for me to justify my suspicions. And at the end... I was totally surprised. As always, Brian L. Porter has written another book that can't be put down. I can never get enough of his books. He has a Stephen King/Dean Kunze/Jeffrey Deaver frame of mind when he writes putting him right up there in their class of authors.

Name: Berk Rourke
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Murder in Merseyside, murder most foul, murder that forces the bile from the throats of experienced detectives.
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2016
Review: The graveyard killers strike, leaving a gutted man with parts of his anatomy missing. Detective Inspector Andy Ross, Detective Sergeant Clarissa "Izzy" Drake and the other members of the Merseyside Homicide unit are put to work trying to find a heinous killer. A second body surfaces which is killed and displayed afterward in, if it is possible, an even more heinous fashion, draped over an angel in another graveyard. A connection surfaces between the two men. They both were orphans and both went to Speke Hall as youths. One of them, named Matthew had been in prison for rape. And yet another body surfaces from a watery suicide. When Andy theorizes that the suicide is connected to the two dead men and finally theorizes that someone is killing rapists, maybe rapists from a group, the chase is on. Of course Andy and his team ferret out the murderers. But the book is about the manner in which they do so as well as weaving the tale of the monsters who are killers and those who are rapists.
Another tour de force by Brian L. Porter. This is easy to give five stars. The story progresses as it should. The bad guys are bad. The good guys are good. And knowing those things it still grabs your interest and forces you to learn more, more about this series of murders. The third murder finally leads our stalwart detectives to their prey.
What a wonderful tale this author weaves. I have reviewed a number of his books, enjoyed a number of his books and I have to say my feelings about this one are still the same. This author is a real character builder, is able to create people whose lives are real in the pages as you turn them. I enjoyed this book a great deal. I would recommend it to any reader above early teens. A great story, with great characters. Loved it.

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