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Evil in Mind: A gripping serial killer thriller (DCI Danny Flint Book 1) Kindle Edition
Two evil men. One deadly obsession.
When DI Danny Flint is asked to look into a fatal accident at a coal mine, he finds himself investigating the biggest case of his career.
Because Flint soon realises this was no accident, it was cold-blooded murder. And he fears the perpetrator will kill again.
But the truth is even more terrifying. Two evil psychopaths have teamed up, and now they carefully select their female victims as they embark on a horrific killing spree..
Flint is desperate to find the mystery killers before they strike again and so begins a deadly game of cat and mouse all set against the backdrop of a bitter miners’ strike.
Then, as he slowly closes in on the evil pair, Danny discovers that someone he cares about is in terrible danger…
Evil in Mind – the first in a gripping new detective series featuring DI Danny Flint.
Please note this book was first published as The Coal Killers
What readers are saying about Evil In Mind:
“This is an excellent read… and really invokes memories of what things were like at the time of the strike. Looking forward to reading the next book.” –Booksprout Reviewer
“A riveting read…4 stars!” –Booksprout Reviewer
“This chilling and utterly compelling story is one of those books which grabs your attention from the very beginning.” –Netgalley Reviewer
“A slow burn mystery featuring two serial killers with some complex MO’s. This was a unique police procedural for me, both in terms of writing style & narrative construction. It’s a long read, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.” -Netgalley Reviewer
“A dark, tense tale, fast moving and compelling with nicely mounting tension. Characters are credible as is the storytelling. A promising start to a new series.” –Netgalley Reviewer
“This is a compulsive, captivating and thoroughly original fact meets fiction police procedural…” –Goodreads Reviewer
“What a massively clever book. I really enjoyed the story plus the twists and turns. Would definitely recommend this to anyone.” –Netgalley Reviewer
“A deftly written and impressive book and one which I would not hesitate recommending to another.” –Goodreads Reviewer
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMay 16, 2021
- File size1882 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B094D9W9VZ
- Publisher : Inkubator Books (May 16, 2021)
- Publication date : May 16, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 1882 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 522 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #103,077 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #806 in Serial Killers
- #1,853 in Murder
- #2,372 in Police Procedurals (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Trevor Negus was born in Enfield, north London and spent the early years of his childhood at Waltham Cross. At the age of eight his parents emigrated to Australia. He then spent just over two years living in Rockhampton, Central Queensland. The family returned to the UK in 1971 settling in the mining community of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. In 1975 Trevor joined the Nottinghamshire Constabulary as a Police Cadet, becoming a regular officer in 1978. As a uniform constable he learned his craft in the pressure cooker environment of inner city Nottingham which at that time had one of the highest violent crime rates in the United Kingdom.
During a varied thirty year police career Trevor spent six years as an authorised firearms officer and sniper, before transferring onto the CID. He spent the last twelve years of his career as a detective, becoming a specialist interviewer involved in the planning and implementation of interviews with murder suspects. He retired from the police in 2007, becoming the Director of a Specialist Laser Clinic and Training Academy.
A keen writer all his adult life, Trevor took the decision to devote more time to his writing after leaving the police force.
After self publishing six crime thrillers, he was signed by MMB Creative.
He now writes full time and has signed a book deal with Inkubator Books, to write a series of crime thrillers involving Detective Chief Inspector Danny Flint.
The Flint series of crime thrillers, will be set in 1980’s Nottinghamshire.
The first in the series, Evil in Mind, is a very dark crime thriller set in Nottinghamshire in 1984, at the heart of the year long bitter miners strike. It centres on the relationship forged between two men from completely different backgrounds who are thrown together by circumstance. Recognising their identical murderous natures, the two men embark on a deadly killing spree across the county.
The second in the series, Dead and Gone has been released alongside the first. Dead and Gone is a story of one man’s revenge.
The third book in the series, A Cold Grave, is a study of systematic child abuse and the efforts made by Danny and his team of detectives to halt this evil.
The fourth book in the series, Taken to Die released in August 2021sees Danny Flint and the MCIU trying to solve the mysterious disappearance of a fourteen year old girl. She is the daughter of two high profile barristers and it soon becomes apparent they have countless enemies. The question is whether any of those enemies are capable of taking a young girl to die.
The fifth book in the series, Kill for You, will be released on 14th November 2021
Set in Nottinghamshire in 1987. Summer should be a time of ease and relaxation. But there are two killers stalking the county. The first is a pyromaniac, enthralled by fire. He likes to watch as his victims desperately try to escape the rising flames. The other is a gentle giant who has been abused and ridiculed all his life. Now he’s out to settle old scores by killing anyone who has previously wronged him, by drowning them in the dark and deadly waters of the River Trent. DCI Flint and the MCIU are tasked with stopping the killers. If they fail, it will mean a long, hot summer of death.
Further books in this crime thriller series, will be released in the Spring and Summer of 2022.
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It's England in 1984 and there's a huge coalminers' strike raging. The details were interesting, since I remembered the strike, but not the details.
We meet Jimmy Wade, a stone cold killer who started at age eleven. Eventually he meets a policeman, Sergeant Nick Reynolds, who's dying to kill his wife, but starts off with prostitutes. The men recognize they have similar tastes and begin hunting and killing together. Meanwhile, DI Flint is under much pressure; not only has his father had a life threatening stroke, he meets a special woman, and to top it off, he has only three other officers to work with; the others are all busy with the strike. Working the case of the horrific killings takes up all of his time, he's overwhelmed.
It's a good police procedural, with a good sense of place, but I found the grisly details of the murders hard to read, so ended up skipping those many chapters. The ending has a good twist and I really recommend this book for readers who are not as squeamish as I am.
This was a great read, it was clever and interesting and I really enjoyed the setting of the Mining Strikes in the 1980's - it's nice to read about murders set in a different time and it adds to the whole desperateness and depression of the characters. I loved following along with the Police Investigation and the changing of the characters perspectives, there were some backstories in there to help build the character profiles which I loved. You got to see more to people than just them at work.
It was a captivating read, with many twists and turns. I did enjoy (and find hard at the same time) how I felt worse and worse for each victim and was still expecting them to fight back every time. The murders were extremely gruesome, so I think some may skip over these parts but for me they really added to the story by showing just how careful, calculating and evil these two men are. The ending did not disappoint and didn't feel too hurried which I often find with books of this genre.
Will definitely be reading more of this Author.
Top reviews from other countries
Evil In Mind is captivating; each unique believable character, scene, scenario and circumstance is so skillfully written , evoking a wide contrast of emotions such as the tender heart touching scenes between Danny and his beloved Dad and the romance and love between Danny and his lady Sue to the heart palpatating, needing to stop reading a moment then NEEDING to carry on scene of pure horror and gore of THAT particular body discovery....
A wonderful mixture of varied characters and their situations that you get to know enough about to decide who you care about!
The descriptive narrative is superb throughout and it's clear this is the best of what can be achieved when first class , first hand experience/knowledge is combined with first class writing.
Absolutely incredible!
I would wholeheartedly recommend Evil In Mind to any crime thriller reader and even to those not familiar or interested in this genre, this may be the one to convert you!