MERCILESS by Heleyne Hammersley.
Merciless by Heleyne Hammersley. "I can't seem to stop what I've started. It's his fault. I can feel his poison in me, flowing through my veins." Police procedural murder investigations combined with the thriller genre make up for a dynamic combination. You won't be disappointed. "Merciless" is the second novel in the D.I. Kate Fletcher series. Set mainly around south Yorkshire you are presented with a bunch of down-to-earth detectives working with Kate. Hollis was a key part of her team, Sam Cooper, efficient but an extremely private person, Barratt and O'Connor who Kate tolerated but disliked. Nothing untoward. Kate takes her work seriously and it dominates her life. She seems a little more compassionate and human showing how different she is from how the stereotypical D.I. is portrayed. Nick Tsappis becomes romantically attached to Kate at the end and sums up her caring nature when he tells her: "It matters.