Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Every Last Devil - Alex Smith - DCI Kett Crime Thrillers Book 16.0

Every Last Devil
DCI Kett Crime Thrillers Book 16.0
ISBN 9781913877163
ASIN B0CNZDYQYG

Every Last Devil - Alex Smith - DCI Kett Crime Thrillers Book 16.0

As always I look forward to new offerings from the pen of Alex Smith, It has been so since reading his YA Furnace Series over a decade ago. I picked up this title on release day but did not get to it for a few months because work and family life were so busy. When I did start it I read in over 2 days and 3 sittings. It is another great volume in an excellent series. I could hardly put it down. I got up very early to start it on it the second day, and stayed up way too late that next night reading.

The description of this volume is:

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here...

While filming a school project inside a ruined church, three teenagers make a horrific discovery: a severed head, left as part of a demonic ritual.

Before they can call the police, they are brutally attacked—and one of the teenagers is taken.

DCI Kett and the Extreme Crime Task Force know it's only a matter of time before the missing girl meets a terrifying fate. But as they hunt for her they find themselves caught up in one of the most dangerous cases of their careers—a living nightmare of conspiracy, sacrifice and cold-blooded murder.

Kett must explore the darkest parts of the country, the human soul, and himself to get to the heart of this unholy mystery.

But how can he catch a killer who might be the Devil himself?

The sixteenth instalment in the million-selling DCI Kett series is the most ferocious, frightening and darkly funny yet. Relentless action, compulsive mystery and dark humour abound in the series that Thrilling Fiction calls "Heart-stoppingly gripping!" from the author that James Patterson describes as "fresh and ferocious!"”

Kett and the team are being followed by a film crew, actually they are filming Aaron Dukes return to work as Britain’s bravest copper. But I am getting ahead of myself. The story starts with three college students heading to an abandoned church in the woods to film a youtube video. When they discover a severed human head, and are attacked by the time the police arrive one is missing, one is in the ambulance and one is rambling on and on about what happened. 

Soon Kett and the team realize there are some serious occult elements to the case. And a garden of limbs sets them all on edge. There are many misdirection’s. Explosions, and even at attack on the police station. Can Kett and the team piece together what is really happening? To find out you will need to read this dark and disturbing novel.

It is a pretty dark piece of British Crime fiction. If you have read the other DCI Kett books this one is a must read. If you happen to be a fan of rough and tough action you will almost certainly enjoy this novel. And the other books in the series. This is the sixteenth of the DCI Kett stories that I have read, the seventeenth novel where Kett makes an appearance. Kett made a brief appearance in The Harder They Fall, the first of the Softley Series of books.

About the author we are informed that:

“Alex Smith wrote his first book when he was six. It wasn’t particularly good, but it did have some supernatural monsters in it. His latest books, the DCI Robert Kett thrillers, have monsters in it too, although these monsters are very human, and all the more terrifying for it. In between these two books he has published thirteen other novels for children and teenagers under his full name, Alexander Gordon Smith—including the number one bestselling series Escape From Furnace, which is loved by millions of readers worldwide and which is soon to become a motion picture. He lives in Norwich with his wife and three young daughters.”

For some the Kett stories will be the things of nightmares, for others a look at the underside of society. But no matter how you read them they are crime thrillers with a lot of action, great characters and often a significant violence! This one has several surprises for Kett, the team and for us the readers! It is well worth the read. 

Mystery Books as Alex Smith:

Softley Softley Series:
2.0 Hard Luck House
...

DCI Kett Series:
2.0 Bad Dog
3.0 Three Little Pigs

Books By Alexander Gordon Smith:
Escape from Furnace:
Lockdown

Solitary
Death Sentence
Fugitives 
Execution
Execution Epilogue - Short Story
The Night Children - Short Story


Fury Series:
The Fury
The Storm

The Inventors:
The Inventors
The Inventors And The City of Stolen Souls

Non-Fiction:
1001 Questions and Answers
Inspired Creative Writing: 52 Brilliant Ideas from the Master Wordsmiths
The Solar System
Family Quiz
Writing Bestselling Children's Books: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Inspiring Young Readers

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