Book Review - Ragdoll by Daniel Cole

Title: Ragdoll
Series: Fawkes and baxter # 1
Author: Danie Cole
 
Description: William Fawkes, a controversial detective known as The Wolf, has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect. Still under psychological evaluation, Fawkes returns to the force eager for a big case. When his former partner and friend, Detective Emily Baxter, calls him to a crime scene, he’s sure this is it: the body is made of the dismembered parts of six victims sewn together like a puppet – a corpse that becomes known as “The Ragdoll”.
 
Fawkes is tasked with identifying the six victims, but that gets dicey when his reported ex-wife anonymously receives photographs from the crime scene, along with a list of six names, and the dates on which the Ragdoll Killer plans to murder them. The final name on the list is Fawkes.
 
Baxter and her trainee partner, Alex Edmunds, hone in on figuring our what links the victims together before the killer strikes again. But for Fawkes seeing his name on the list sparks a dark memory, and her fears that the catalyst for these killings has more to do with him, and his past, than anyone realizes.
 
Review: The synopsis sounded amazing, I was immediately intrigued. Unfortunately, “Ragdoll” did not live up to my expectations.
 
We follow detectives William Fawkes, also known as The Wolf, and Emily Baxter who are working on the case of the ragdoll killer. This serial killer gets his name from the fact that he strings body parts of his victims together to form one person (or ragdoll). I’m mostly very interested in serial killer stories like this, but I just couldn’t get into this one.
 
I always like it when we follow several characters, but not in “Ragdoll”. There are many characters, but no one really stands out. And even though I don’t mind that characters in a book are unlikeable, at least they are interesting. None of the characters in “Ragdoll” are. I think Alex Edmunds is the only nice character in the book and everyone treats him like crap. And even he become less likeable once the book progressed.
 
The book dragged, I wasn’t invested and I already forgot most of it right after I finished it. A very forgettable book, not my type of thriller. I will not be continuing in this series.
 
Rating: 2/ 5