Cut Her Dead by Iain McDowall (ISBN 978-0-7499-3841-3)

An intensely dark portrayal of modern-day crime and its perpetrators. For anyone touched by the abhorrent act of Identity Theft, this will not make you sleep any easier at night...
Carefully plotted, with a realistic (but not reassuring) depiction of the individual Detectives on the case; this is a decent, if slightly predictable police thriller. Personally, I would have derived greater satisfaction had the perps actually got off scott free - not because I agree or condone their actions, but because it would have sat a little better with the gritty realism of the actual plot.
The only damp squib was in the occasionally confusing and annoyingly shallow characters that made up 'Brady, Annabel, Maria and Adrian' - the leap into the world of bondage, domination and fetishism only serving to remind us that 'normal' middle-class types don't actually do this sort of thing (which clearly is not all that accurate) and a little more meat on their bones would have made this a much more satisfying a read. That said - it stands head and shoulders above the bog-standard police thriller and if you enjoy books of this nature, you won't be disappointed.