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A Gift For Dying by M J Arlidge

"Nothing surprises Adam Brandt anymore. As a forensic psychologist, he’s seen and heard everything. That is, until he meets Kassie. Because she claims to have a terrible gift – with one look into your eyes, she can see when and how you will die. Adam doesn’t believe her, obviously. But then a serial killer starts wreaking havoc across the city, and only Kassie seems to know where he’ll strike next. Against all his intuition, Adam starts to believe her. He just doesn’t realise how dangerous this trust might be . . ." I was excited to read to read the book having recently read Eeny Meeny also by Arlidge and having heard Arlidge talk about it at Newcastle Noir earlier this year. Was Adam really going to kill Kassie? If yes how on earth did Arlidge connect the dots to make it work? We had all read the book an all thought it was very heavily plotted. I liked this about the book however some thought it was almost too clever. He'd had a great ide