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The Santa Killer: The addictive, page-turning crime thriller from Ross Greenwood (The DI Barton Book 6) Kindle Edition

by Ross Greenwood (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The Santa Killer is coming to town…

One night less than two weeks before Christmas, a single mother is violently assaulted. It’s a brutal crime at the time of year when there should be goodwill to all. When DI Barton begins his investigation, he’s surprised to find the victim is a woman with nothing to hide and no reason for anyone to hurt her.

A few days later, the mother of the woman attacked rings the police station. Her granddaughter has drawn a shocking picture. It seems she was looking out of the window when her mother was attacked. And when her grandmother asks the young girl who the person with the weapon is, she whispers two words.

Bad Santa.

The rumours start spreading, and none of the city’s women feel safe - which one of them will be next?

He’s got a list. It’s quite precise. It won’t matter even if you’re nice. 

Ross Greenwood is back with his bestselling series, perfect for fans of Mark Billingham and Ian Rankin.

Praise for Ross Greenwood:

'Ross Greenwood is at the top of his game.' Owen Mullen

'Move over Rebus and Morse; a new entry has joined the list of great crime investigators in the form of Detective Inspector John Barton. A rich cast of characters and an explosive plot kept me turning the pages until the final dramatic twist.' author Richard Burke

‘Master of the psychological thriller genre Ross Greenwood once again proves his talent for creating engrossing and gritty novels that draw you right in and won’t let go until you’ve reached the shocking ending.’ Caroline Vincent at Bitsaboutbooks blog

'Ross Greenwood doesn’t write clichés. What he has written here is a fast-paced, action-filled puzzle with believable characters that's spiced with a lot of humour.' author Kath Middleton

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Dear Readers, thanks for checking out my books.

I write two different types of novels. The first is a detective series set in Peterborough starring DI Barton which starts with The Snow Killer.

I don’t write cliches, so Barton is no unprofessional alcoholic. He is a family man, struggling with balancing his home life against the horrors of the job as he hunts down various killers. There is a strong team with characters you'll grow to love. There are also some dark scenes that will have your heart in your mouth and a fast pace to keep you interested.

The other novels I write are influenced by my time working as a prison officer. HMP Peterborough is the only prison in the UK which holds men and women, obviously in separate jails, but it meant I got to work in both environments. The differences were surprising, as was what these fearful places were really like. It was a tough job, with a steep learning curve.

Please feel free to get in touch. I love to hear your thoughts and read your reviews.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B2ML2XCT
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Boldwood Books (September 12, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3220 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 430 pages
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After some were republished. Here is my complete list of works:

Canaries in the Coal Mine

The Snow Killer

The Soul Killer

The Ice Killer

The Cold Killer

The Fire Killer

The Santa Killer

Lifer

Survivor

Chancer

Jail Break

Prisoner

Hunter

Death on Cromer Beach

Death in Paradise

Death in Bacton Woods (possibly)

I was born in 1973 in Peterborough and lived there until I was 20, attending The King's School in the city. I then began a rather nomadic existence, living and working all over the country and various parts of the world.

I found myself returning to Peterborough many times over the years, usually when things had gone wrong. It was on one of these occasions that I met my partner about 100 metres from my back door whilst walking a dog. Two children swiftly followed. I'm still a little stunned by the pace of it now.

Fifty Years of Fear book was started a long time ago but parenthood and then after working in sales management all my life, i randomly spent four years as a prison officer. Ironically it was the four a.m. feed which gave me the opportunity to finish the book as unable to get back to sleep I completed it in the early morning hours.

It's surprising for me to realise I've written ten books now. There are two strands, one where the books concern lives affected by prison, and then my detective series starring DI John Barton. The first Barton book, The Snow Killer hit the coveted number one spot on KOBO, with the second and third in the series not far behind.

The Snow Killer spent a week at number one on the Apple Audiobook Charts. The Cold Killer has twice been a top 10 Amazon bestseller for Audible as well.

The Fire Killer is out in May 2022.

My book about a prison officer, with a little bit of me in it, is also out now. Prisoner will help you understand a world that hopefully you never have to experience first hand.

I hope you enjoy reading them.

Please feel free to get in touch.

https://www.facebook.com/RossGreenwoodAuthor/

Twitter - greenwoodross

Insta - rossg555

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Pedigree
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2022
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Story line kept me guessing.
The interaction between characters were so warm and believable. The retirement party was a great send off for John.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Santa Killer
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2024
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Another fast reading book. Ross has an easy flow to his writing, that makes you want to read until you get to the end. Although this was not my favorite in the series, I still enjoyed it. And when book 7 is released I will be one of the first to read it.
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Jktipooh
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
This was a good book. The suspense and wonder if who had done it, held true. First time reading the author. Will no continue the exploration.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Okay
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2023
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This book seemed to drag on forever. One I had to make myself finish. It will be awhile before I read this author again.
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coccotoro
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Series!
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2022
THE SANTA KILLER is the sixth book in a British Crime Thriller Series by Ross Greenwood featuring Detective Inspector John Barton. Having read and enjoyed the previous five books in the series, I was anxious to start this one. I can now see that it will be well received and appeal to a wide audience, as it combines many different genres. This novel can be read as a stand-alone but I would recommend reading the novels in sequence, as this book picks up from the last book.

Novels in this DI Barton Series Include:
The Snow Killer (Book 1)
The Soul Killer (Book 2)
The Ice Killer (Book 3)
The Cold Killer (Book 4)
The Fire Killer (Book 5)
The Santa Killer (Book 6)

This is my review of The Santa Killer.

It was going to be the best Christmas ever, but Inga was assaulted on her way to her car after buying purchases for the Christmas holidays. Her partner, Lucas was coming home from his air force job and her daughter, Amelie was coming back from university.

The Santa Killer is coming to town…

Then two weeks before Christmas, a single mother, Maggie Glover is violently assaulted on her doorstep. Why was she attacked?

DI Barton is assigned to the case, and has little information about the attacker. There was no apparent reason for anyone to hurt the victim.

A few days later, Joan Brown, the mother of Maggie Glover who was attacked contacts the police. Joan tells the police that her ten- year- old granddaughter, Pippa who is autistic was looking out the window when her mother was attacked and drew a picture of what she saw. Her granddaughter had drawn a shocking picture. And when her grandmother asked the young girl who the person with the weapon was, she whispered two words.

Bad Santa.

Now no one feels safe in the city…Who will be next?

The story POV alternates from The Santa Killer, and DI Barton.

The author allows the reader to observe The Santa Killer and his methods. We learn that he watches and studies his victim’s patterns and daily schedule. He walks, or uses public transportation, but no buses, for fear of showing up on CCTV camera. But most of all he has a list…of his intended victims…and Maggie was the first.

Bad Santa is out there and must be caught!

DI Barton and his team have their work cut out for them, as this case soon becomes a complex investigation. They must find the perpetrator before he strikes again.

This was a well written novel with well-developed realistic characters that held my attention and kept me guessing from beginning to end.

Many thanks to the author and The Book Club Reviewer Request Group (FB) for my digital copy.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great read, Christmas or not
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2023
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This is the first book I have read by this author. I really enjoyed the comraderie of the characters, they are likable. I love mysteries and this was one that you might think you know who did it but chances are you wouldn't be correct. I will definitely go back and read the series, but I am sad that this is the end..I say give it a try.
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Nana Can
5.0 out of 5 stars Before you go......
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2023
This was a much better book than I was expecting by the title. Lots of twists and turns, kept you guessing the whole way. Love the wrap up at the end!
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Jody @ I'm Into Books
5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging Story
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023
Ross Greenwood's The Christmas Killer is a well-written mystery with an engaging story and likable characters. I've only read this book by Greenwood, but I can already tell that it won't be my last because the plot keeps moving along at a nice pace and has enough twists to keep me interested the entire evening. I highly recommend.
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Lou
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2024
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The concluding novel in the series highlighted the iniquities in society in a well constructed novel. The relationships between the police feature strongly but sadly the author has decided to end the series here with DI Barton off to a desk job.

On behalf of all of those who have loved his honesty, fabulous intuitive stomach and the interesting cases I say ‘NO!!!!’ Please let him have his year to recharge and then bring him back. He can take charge of cold cases and use DNA as well as his gut to solve things. BRING BACK BARTON.
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Mr. David B
5.0 out of 5 stars unputdownable
Reviewed in Germany on September 24, 2023
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Book 6 and still compelling. Is DI Barton going to be back or is this his last case? Who knows
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JenMedBookLover
4.0 out of 5 stars Another twisted case for Barton
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2022
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What a way to say goodbye to the team. Still infused with it’s usual mix of mystery and tension, the book is also one that will tug at the heartstrings, and which feels sadly all too familiar and uncomfortably close to home in the financial political and economic climate.

At surface level, this is the story of the team’s investigation into the brutal assault of a single mother. Left unconscious outside of her own front door, it soon becomes clear that her young daughter may well have witnessed the assault. Her description of the attacker? Well it’s far from being unique or helpful to be honest but does give the exam pause for thought.

There are no end of suspects, from her colleagues, some of whom may well have been more than a touch jealous of her recent promotion, a boss who is far more familiar with his staff than he really ought to be, or maybe even the victim’s fitness instructor who has been showing a lot of personal interest of late. There were clear motives for all of them and I love that Ross Greenwood kept us all guessing to the end.

This isn’t the only case that the team are faced with and Barton soon finds himself on the periphery of a case in which a previously undeclared serial killer seems to be making their way ever closer to Peterborough in a case that bears some similarities to the assault case. It’s a mild distraction and we do have to wonder how the two cases tie up if they even do.

If you have read any of the other books in the series, you will be used to the narrative style, with the majority of the scenes following the investigation but being threaded with some that are told from the point of view of the ‘killer’. There is a twist to this narrative this time around but I’m not going to say what. It works perfectly, drives the tension and, to a degree, the empathy for the perpetrator as much as for the victims. What happens cannot be condoned, but the more we learn, the easier it becomes to understand what comes to pass.

There is a real socio-political heart to this story, one which could, and probably will, easily be replicated across the country in the coming months. Poverty, grief, and mental health all have a bearing on these cases. It is fair to say that the subject of family, be it of the victims, the perpetrator or the Detectives themselves, plays a very large part in the story.

Barton has always been a family man, and it is down to his family and all that he is missing that a rather game-changing decision is made. But for every moment of darkness or sadness, there is an equal moment of humour and lightness, and scenes which made me both laugh and smile, just what I have come to love from these books.

I will miss Barton and co but this was a fitting ending with tension sky-rocketing and stakes being raised right to the end. And the final chapters – I can’t think of a nicer way to say goodbye. Or maybe it’s adieu? I can always re-read the books after all. If you love the series you will love this one too, even if it leaves us with one of those bittersweet moments fans of a fabulous series all come to dread – the very, very last page.
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Liz shaw
5.0 out of 5 stars exciting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2024
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Yet again a well written and exciting book to keep you guessing with follow ups to tie up loose ends
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Yvonne
5.0 out of 5 stars Santa killer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2024
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Lots of twists and turns
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