THE PREACHER (Detective Jason Smith #32) by Stewart Giles

From bestselling author: Stewart Giles comes another brilliant addition to the Detective Jason Smith.

The Preacher has spoken. The Preacher knows everything.

A teenage suicide leads Detective Sergeant Smith into a waking nightmare. The girl was his daughter’s best friend, and she had no reason to want to end her life.

A string of suicides follow, and all of them share a common denominator.

Some who calls himself The Preacher is playing God and Smith has no idea where to start looking.

The Preacher has his own delusional agenda, and the more Smith learns, the more he realises that he can’t stop this monster the old-fashioned way.

The Preacher is a predator with no conscience. There are no moral boundaries he won’t cross. This is a psychopath who will stop at nothing to fulfil his sick, twisted desires, and Smith realises he will have to forget everything he’s ever learned about detection if he wants to stop the most depraved murderer of his career.

Stewart Giles – Author Bio

After reading English at 3 Universities and graduating from none of them, I set off travelling around the world with my wife, Ann, finally settling in South Africa, where we still live.

In 2014 Ann dropped a rather large speaker on my head and I came up with the idea for a detective series. DS Jason Smith was born. Smith, the first in the series was finished a few months later.

3 years and 8 DS Smith books later, Joffe Books wondered if I would be interested in working with them. As a self-published author, I agreed. However, we decided on a new series – the DC Harriet Taylor: Cornwall series.

The Beekeeper was published and soon hit the number one spot in Australia. The second in the series, The Perfect Murder did just as well.

I continued to self-publish the Smith series and Unworthy hit the shelves in 2018 with amazing results.  I therefore made the decision to self-publish The Backpacker which is book 3 in the Detective Harriet Taylor series which was published in July 2018.

After The Backpacker I had an idea for a totally new start to a series – a collaboration between the Smith and Harriet thrillers and The Enigma was born. It brought together the broody, enigmatic Jason Smith and the more level-headed Harriet Taylor.

The Miranda trilogy is something totally different. A psychological thriller trilogy. It is a real departure from anything else I’ve written before.

The Detective Jason Smith series continues to grow. I also have another series featuring an Irish detective who relocated to Guernsey, the Detective Liam O’Reilly series. There are also 3 stand alone novels.

Website: www.stewartgiles.com

Twitter: @stewartgiles

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My Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 out of 5

These stories continue to get better, creepier, and darker by the book it seems, but I keep coming back because I just can’t get enough of DS Jason Smith or his colleagues. The criminals seem to get more deranged by each book and the danger to those Jason Smith cares most about seems to increase with each book as well.

DS Jason Smith has no idea the darkness or danger that is surrounding his team or the city. The deaths that have occurred seem to be random, but Jason knows better. He’ll keep digging until he finds the person responsible and puts them behind bars for good. It will take more than his detective mind to resolve this mystery.

I love these stories and the Detectives in the Jason Smith series. The books continue to pull me in from the beginning and hold on tight until the very end. Always hard to put down and walk away until it’s finished.