Title:
⟫ The Red Collar
⟫ M. Kato
Rating:
⟫ 4/5
Blurb:
⟫ Chief Inspector Hayashi Teruo is short-tempered,
impatient and a perfectionist. When another one of his partners
resigns, Teruo is assigned a new one transferred from Hiroshima. But
this comes with a condition: if his partner bails on Teruo before the
end of the month, he risks demotion.
Miyazaki
Shinji wants to forget the problems of his past, focus on
his new position at Tōkyō MPD and work with the department’s best
homicide detective. As a supernatural, Shinji speaks with ghosts of
murder victims, gaining insight into the cases and solving them
faster.
Before
they get a chance to become acquainted, Teruo and Shinji are thrown
into a new murder case. The body of a young man is found, killed with
a weapon bearing a strange resemblance to a dog’s collar. As more
victims are discovered, they need to dig deeper and find the
connection between them.
While
working on the case, Teruo and Shinji are caught into an irresistible
attraction. But being partners on duty and lovers in bed isn’t easy.
As Teruo slowly unravels Shinji’s secrets, he questions his
partner’s integrity, while Shinji is caught in endless lies
threatening his relationship with Teruo as lovers and co-workers.
Review:
⟫ This book got more and more interesting the more I read, but I
definitely had some issues with it. The main characters were not very
defined in my opinion and their relationship got hot and heavy
extremely fast with no real explanation as to why they were feeling
such an intense attraction to each other.
The
Supernatural aspects were really interesting, although I sometimes
got confused with the terminology that was used. I was also
fascinated by Teruo’s reactions – on the one hand, he was more
than a little blasé, but on the other hand he was asking the
questions I would want answers to.
The
procedural aspects of things were good but a bit basic, but with all
of the supernatural stuff to explain that is understandable. I will
be looking for the second book in the series to read and would
recommend this to people interested in a little supernatural touch to
their police romance.
4/5
from me – I received an ARC from GRR.
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