Author: Patrick Senecal

I read this book very quickly, not because it was short (300+ pages) but because I couldn’t put it down. I was quite a few pages in before I realized this is a Canadian writer and the crime is set in Quebec.

A young girl is raped and murdered and the man arrested for the crime has confessed and DNA evidence proves he was the monster. For the first few days her parents mourn her death but after the arrest her father, surgeon Dr. Hamel, goes completely off the rails. He kidnaps the killer and plans to torture him for seven days, at which time he will kill the monster and turn himself in to the police. Will the madness prevail or will the police find his hiding place in time?

Some of the descriptions of the torture are quite brutal and I was glad to be reading, for the most part, on a sunny day.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *