He'll make your his Angel, but first you have to die . . .

After a turbulent time, DCI Ryan's life is finally beginning to return to normal and he's looking forward to spending an uneventful Easter bank holiday weekend with his fiancée.

Then, on Good Friday morning he is called out to a crime scene at one of the largest cemeteries in Newcastle. The body of a redheaded woman has been found buried in a shallow grave and the killer has given her wings, like an angel.

Soon, another woman is found at a different cemetery, followed quickly by another. Panic spreads like wildfire as a new serial killer is born, and Ryan's band of detectives must work around the clock to unmask him before he can strike again.

Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast paced crime whodunnit set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape.

I grew up in the North East and stumbled across this series of books by accident. I was intrigued by the first book Holy Island with murders on Lindisfarne, and then with Sycamore Gap, set on Hadrian's Wall.

Angel is the fourth in the series, and luckily doesn't feature the far-fetched backstory of the "Circle" of pagans or satanists, but does still contain dogged policemen and women solving an unrealistic number of murders by another serial killer psychopath, and is a page turner as a result.

passed onto someone going to Stockholm