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What's this book called? (Spoiler alert)

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CosyCapricorn · 28/12/2023 13:10

Can anyone help? I've realised my list of books I have read this year is incomplete and that just won't do.

Spoilers and description of horrible scenes ahead so tread carefully...

It's a detective thriller. I remember it has a helpline at the beginning or end due to the graphic descriptions of murders. Here goes...

There's several murders through the book. The first is a girl living alone. There's a texting exchange where she realises the killer is in her house. She is found hanging from a hook. There's some sort of note/line from a poem but I can't remember what it says.
Another murder is a young guy and there is something involving him being mutilated with lobsters(!). Again, a line of a poem note left.
Hazy after that but it is eventually worked out that there's a connection between the victims that their close loved ones were all in the same class at school and they bullied a girl who killed herself. The killer turns out to be the mother of this girl, seeking revenge. The end involves her trying to escape on a plane and the detective getting shot.

There. That's what I remember!

Any ideas?

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beachcitygirl · 28/12/2023 13:39

Chris Carter - Genesis.

The author has a whole series featuring detective Robert Hunter - absolutely fantastic crime thrillers. Grim & terrifying and clever but not gratuitously sexualised which I appreciate.

CosyCapricorn · 28/12/2023 13:58

Yeeessssssss!!!!! Thank you so much ❤️

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SamphiretheTervosaurReturneth · 28/12/2023 13:59

Oh! That was quickly resolved. I came to give you the same answer 😊

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