The Butcher - Jennifer Hillier

pages: 352  published: 2014

Sam is writing a book about "the Butcher" a serial killer active in the Seattle area in the 1980s but shot down by police in 1985. She is convinced that the wrong person was killed, that the Butcher is still on the run, and is in fact responsible for her mother's death in 1987. Sam's boyfriend, Mat is an up and coming chef. His grand-father, known as the Chief, is a retired detective, famous for leading the case against the Butcher. When Mat moves into his grand-father's home, the Chief having move to a retirement home, he makes a gruesome discovery in the backyard. 

This book is not a thriller. No supsense. Everything is revealed in the first few pages and then it's just a question of reading on to see how it plays out. The characters lack depth. Not even an interesting beach read.