Slow thriller but good twist

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I love the premise of this thriller, a serial killer who calls himself @nonymous leaves corpses floating in glass vitrines of formaldehyde, displaying his 'art' all around London. @nonymous catfishes his victims by stalking them in a café and pretending to be someone else on social media. With more exhibits to come, Detective Inspector Grace Archer needs to race against time to catch this 'artist'.

I enjoyed that we got a few short chapters of @nonymous' point of view and how he killed his victims but I would've liked a bit more background as to why he's doing this or why he chose those three homeless men and others. Talking about backstory's, we touched upon DI Grace's encounter with a child serial killer and how she was the only one to survive at the age of twelve. This seems a bit far fetched and I felt it didn't really serve much of a purpose to this case or touch on symptoms of mental health issues like PTSD etc.

It's quite a long book and I thought it was a bit slow paced in some places, however I did like the twist at the end. There were a few typos which bothered me but overall it was a good read but it didn't leave me particularly excited for future books from this author.