The hope that kills by Ed James

Blurb from amazon 

The body of a young woman is found on the streets of East London, in the shadow of the City’s gleaming towers. No ID on her, just hard-earned cash. But there is no doubting the ferocity of the attack.

DI Simon Fenchurch takes charge but, as his team tries to identify her and piece together her murder, 

they’re faced with cruel indifference at every turn—nobody cares about yet another dead prostitute. To Fenchurch, however, she could just as easily be Chloe, his daughter still missing after ten years, whose memory still haunts his days and nights, his burning obsession having killed his marriage.

When a second body is discovered, Fenchurch must peel back the grimy layers shrouding the London sex trade, confronting his own traumatic past while racing to undo a scheme larger, more complex and more evil than anything he could possibly have imagined.

About the author 

Ed James writes crime fiction novels. His Scott Cullen series features a young Edinburgh detective constable investigating crimes from the bottom rung of the career ladder he’s desperate to climb. The Hope That Kills is the first in a new series featuring DI Simon Frenchurch, set on the gritty streets of East London. Formerly an IT manager, Ed began writing on planes, trains and automobiles to fill his weekly commute to London. He now writes full-time and lives in East Lothian, Scotland, with his girlfriend and a menagerie of rescued animals.

This was my first book by Ed James and I can say i did enjoy it once I got into it I did find it slow to begin with but it grabs you after the first chapter. Di Simon Fenchurch is called to a body found in a used warehouse and with no identification and her no even being registered of being born they are stuck to find out who the killer was till another body is found and cctv shows the killer. But when he turns up dead as well they now that there is going to be more to that than meets the eye.

For Di Fenchurch this is his worse nightmare as it brings back all the things he doesn’t want to handle as this just reminds him of his daughter getting taken when she was eight years old. His father is around the station dealing with other stuff Which he thinks is related to one of Simon’s cases.

Simon realises he needs to deal with his grief and maybe he might just get through another case like he has this time and maybe have a chance to get his wife back