Vows to Kill by Mark Capell – A Review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Released October 30, 2012
Detective Inspector Lee Eyre receives an email: ‘I WILL KILL YOU ON YOUR WEDDING DAY.’
Is it a sick practical joke? Or an earnest threat? Who sent him the anonymous e-mail?
Lee is about to marry Lucy. They only met six months ago. But in the gusts of this whirlwind romance, Lee has avoided telling Lucy about his past. That past is the stuff of nightmares – gangsters with grudges, an obsessive ex-wife, and a mysterious stranger who can provide the link to a murder investigation that went tragically wrong.
Despite strange recurring dreams, Lee’s approach has been to bury his head in the sand, pretending the past didn’t happen. But that’s not an option now.
Lee must investigate a crime that hasn’t yet happened – his own murder – to prevent it from happening. But that investigation is complicated by twists and turns. It will cause Lee to question why he’s a police officer and whether he can marry his perfect woman.
Will Lee and Lucy have a future? Or will it be obliterated by Lee’s past?
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REVIEW: Vows to Kill is a mystery/crime/romance novel taking place in and around London, England. Written in point of view style, different characters have point of view changes in chapters with the main story being the majority, until they all come together into the main story. This reminds me of Dean Koontz’s style of intertwining the lives of characters into a thrilling tale.
The story starts out with a bank robbery in progress. An off duty police officer about to retire and go on the vacation trip of a lifetime had come into the bank to arrange a small loan, during the robbery he feels bad for not doing more, then he gets killed trying to save an elderly woman.
The next chapter begins the main part of the story with Lucy and Lee skydiving, where he proposed via a banner held by the instructors while they were falling back to earth (very romantic idea).
There are also chapters on the mysterious Molly and her troubled relationship with her beloved Sam…interesting person.
We learn through the intricate weaving of the story that Lee is a police officer who has had a very bad experience six years or more prior and was married briefly then divorced from a woman named Kat. He has not mentioned any of this to his new love, including his brief marriage….he is guilt ridden and afraid of ending his seemingly perfect new relationship if he tells Lucy about his past. We’re pretty much in the dark about why he feels this way, as things come to light slowly.
As the story progresses and the wedding is getting planned, Lee receives a mysterious death threat which starts him investigating into his past on his own, with help of a detective friend.
I don’t want to do spoilers…so let’s just say the story winds and twists around through the events of Lee’s past and present with many surprising events. The characters are well written with many differences and quirks, and the ending is very twisted and surprising!
A most unusual tale with a most unusual ending!
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Reviewed by Georgianna S.
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For my sins, I used to be a television director. During that time, I met all sorts of weird and wonderful people, including a gangster who offered to kill anybody who upset me. But instead of taking up his offer, I decided to join the exciting digital revolution and take my storytelling skills to the world of fiction.
My first novel, a crime thriller called Run, Run, Run, reached number one on the Amazon UK crime and thriller chart.
My aim as a writer is to tell exciting stories that haven’t been told before, and to introduce readers to intriguing characters they haven’t met in other books. In that way I want to be an explorer.
My writing style is terse and kinetic.
