The Devil’s Feather

The Devil’s Feather by Minette Walters, read by Josephine Bailey.

Connie Burns, a Reuters war correspondent, follows a hunch that has her convinced that a British mercenary, MacKenzie, is using the mayhem of war zones in troubled countries to cover his serial rapes/murders. As she tries to put the story together, a mysterious assailant kidnaps her and holds her prisoner for three days in Iraq. After she is released, she flees to Dorset and rents an isolated house to try to recover from the torture and abuse.

There she hesitantly forms a friendship with a local doctor and a reclusive young woman who has lost her entire family in a car crash. From them, Connie learns the troubled history of the house and attempts to piece together what actually occurred there. And, as the days go by, she realizes, with increasing fear, that MacKenzie is coming for her.

This is nice little thriller.. British, but not so much you have trouble with the language.. Good cast of characters and dialogue…

JM