Dr Ronnie Ackerman wakes up in bed alone. Her boss, Nobel Prize-winner Professor Hasely Stone, and the man she got drunk with the night before, is downstairs in the sauna, brutally murdered.
Who did this, and why?
Stone had been working with total dedication on the ultimate cure for all cancers. Was he killed because he failed, or because he succeeded?
Ronnie panics, clears the house of all traces of her overnight stay, and then sets out on a mission to find out.
GENRE
Crime Thriller, Murder Mystery
THEME AND TONE
Gripping
LANGUAGE AND WRITING STYLE
Easy to Read
CHARACTERS
Multilayered Complex Characters
MY REVIEW
The story starts out well with a murder scene and Veronica Ackerman panicking and trying to flee the scene. So a promising start that led to a wormhole of conspiracy and murder mystery of Hasley Stone who was a big shot in the Medical Field. He somehow found the cure for cancer and ran trials on some cancer patients. Ronnie and Daniel (a journalist and a cancer patient in the clinical trial) start to work on the case and try to unfold the mystery behind it.
On the whole, the book is amazing. After a long pause, I read a Crime Fiction and it's a breath of fresh air. It was engaging and brilliantly executed. It's 5 star read from me and I highly recommend it for people who are crime fiction fans.
MY RATING
Overall: ★★★★★ | 5 Stars
Plot: ★★★★★| 5 Stars
Characters:★★★★★ | 5 Stars
Pacing: ★★★★★ | 5 Stars
Mystery: ★★★★★★ | 5 Stars
Ending: ★★★★★| 5 Stars
☙ The process of solving a crime and everything coming to light slowly
Roger Corke is a TV journalist who has traveled the world, producing and directing documentaries for series like ITV’s World in Action, BBC’s Panorama, and Channel 4’s Dispatches. He lives with his wife, Lynn, in Oxfordshire. Deadly Protocol is his debut novel.
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