The setting here is 1921 England and Chief Inspector John Madden, haunted from two years of trench warfare is called upon to stop an apparent psychopath from killing again.
This novel had a lot of promise, and I suppose it did deliver the goods if you were in the market for a standard serial killer hunt, set in earlier times without the forensic methods we're familiar with today.
Unfortunately for me, I was under the impression that this story would focus more on the demons that haunt Madden, and the horrors he endured on the battlefield. WWI was such an awful war, and lately I've had a thirst for literature on this time in history. I think my needs are best sought on the non-fiction shelf, so stay turned for reviews to come.
River of Darkness, for what it is, is a fairly good read though, although in this market saturated with this type of read I can't say it stands out from the rest.