No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked.
'You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.'
Alison and Jenny McGregor – Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation – are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. They're in all the gossip magazines, they've got millions of YouTube hits, everyone loves them.
But their reality-TV dream has turned into a real-life nightmare. The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive.
The media want action; the public displays of grief and anger are reaching fever-pitch. Time is running out, but DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on: the kidnappers haven't left a single piece of forensic evidence. The investigation is going nowhere.
It looks as if the price of fame just got a lot higher ...
Rating: 5 Stars
I absolutely loved this story. I really really loved it. There were so many laugh out loud moments for me, just with little one liners like "Did your mother find you under the idiot bush?" that really added to the book. And I think the humour was needed, because really the actual storyline is quite dark in some ways. I'm talking about Jenny's abduction, I didn't really care so much about Alison, but threatening to kill a six year old and also cutting off her toes and sending the video to the BBC is just gruesome.
I think it is somewhat obvious who all the players are when it comes to the abduction, and what really made me laugh was that they all went by names of actors who've played the Doctor, and their leader or brains behind the operation went by the name of someone who'd played the Master. Then again I'm a bit of a geek who enjoys stuff like that.
There is also a really interesting secondary story that runs with Logan's personal life, and we're left with a lovely cliffhanger as to whether or not Samantha will pull through after the house fire. Personally I'm hoping she does but we'll see what happens when I eventually get around to reading the eighth book in the series. Yes I know I'm reading them out of order but shush.
Would I recommend this book? Hell yes. This was an amazing read and I'd happily pick it up again.
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