Review: Creep (B.C. Blues Crime #3) by R.M. Greenaway

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 511 KB
• Print Length: 392 pages
• Publisher: Dundurn (April 21 2018)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
• Language: English
• ASIN: B072C2YHY1

Book Description

Leith and Dion are on the hunt for a different kind of murderer … and he’s a real animal.
Days before Halloween, a pair of hikers come across a body in the old-growth forest of the Lynn Valley Headwaters parklands. But it looks like a simple heart attack, and hardly seems like a police matter …

Until a week later, when a body in a duffel bag is recovered from the crawlspace of a derelict home. It looks like the victim was killed by dogs, but something about the case just seems wrong.

Once an up-and-coming plainclothes star with the North Shore RCMP, these days Constable Cal Dion is coping with depression and back on general duties. Out on the periphery of the murder investigation, he feels it would be safe enough to ask a witness out for a drink, surely …

Constable David Leith, on the other hand, is in the thick of a case complicated by rumour and whispers. Halloween isn’t only bringing out the ghouls. People are starting to think there’s a werewolf on the loose — and the killer seems to agree.

R.M. Greenaway injects an element of gothic suspense into Creep. The result is a haunting, well-wrought tale, with echoes of The Hound of the Baskervilles, set against the dark majesty of Vancouver's North Shore. A compelling read. (Sam Wiebe, award-winning author of Invisible Dead)

About the Author

RM GREENAWAY has worked in nightclubs, darkrooms, and courthouses. She writes the B.C. BLUES crime series, featuring RCMP detectives Leith and Dion. Her first novel COLD GIRL, winner of the 2014 Arthur Ellis Unhanged award, will be released 26 March 2016.

My Review

Creep is the third book in the BC Blues Crime series by author R.M. Greenaway. It is the second book of Greenaway's that I have read. It helped that I had read the second book as far as understanding the characters.

Creep is a crime story..part police procedural and part mystery. I live in the Lower Mainland so I really enjoy reading books that are set here. This series is set on the north shore in North Vancouver. The Lynn Valley setting is very familiar to me. My parents roamed those woods and streams as children and often took us to Lynn Valley Park to walk the suspension bridge and hike in the woods. Beautiful yet brutal forest that is well represented in  Creep.

The story was interesting. I am not interested in paranormal stories so I ignored the werewolf hints in the book. We are getting to know the characters in the series better in each book. Dion and Leith are both very interesting. I would add some female characters as police officers...ones that stay alive.

Creep is a good read. I probably was more enthralled with the second book in the series, Undertow. I still need to read the first book which is set up north.

BC Blues Crime series is definitely a series I would recommend. Creep is an interesting book that I know mystery fans will enjoy.