#jack heath

Here's my tiny version next to the original and in my hand for scale:

I believe the original book is called Hangman. It was an awesome read!!! I loved it all the way. I won't spoil anything, but the top of the cover saying "for fans of Dexter and Hannibal Lecter" will probably point to what the book is like.

This tiny version took me like... 8 to 10 hours, simply because of all the colour and quite a complicated background.

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4.5 stars out of 5

A 14-year-old boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a disturbing ransom call. It's only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, codename Hangman. Blake is a genius, known for solving impossible cases. He's also a sociopath - the FBI's last resort. But this time Blake might have met his match. The kidnapper is more cunning and ruthless than anyone he's faced before. And Blake has been assigned a new partner, a woman linked to the past he's so desperate to forget. Timothy Blake has a secret, one so dark he will do anything to keep it hidden. And he also has a price. Every time he saves a life, he takes one…

Release Date: June 12, 2018

"Oh, you haven’t heard that one? The government struck a bargain with a cannibal, and they use him to dispose of bodies after executions.”

When the FBI is having a hard time solving a case, they have someone they'll reach out to as a last resort. You may wonder why it has to be a last resort if it'd help solve the case in the first place - well, when the payment for help is a fresh body from death row to fulfill the civilian consultant's craving of human flesh, that might explain it.

Timothy Blake is a loner, civilian consultant who helps the FBI when they desperately need it. He is a master puzzle-solver who seems to always notice the details no one else does. He even makes a little extra cash by solving puzzles people send to him. Blake has an arrangement with the field office director of the FBI. He gets a call to help when a 14 year old boy goes missing on his way home from school and the mother receives a ransom call. The case isn't as open and shut as one might think.

I enjoyed the twists and turns this book took. It was definitely more on the original side of crime fiction. I can honestly say I had never read a book before about a cannibal solving crimes. It made for an interesting story. Some scenes got pretty gruesome, but that's to be expected when you're talking about eating humans and disposing of the remains. At times, Blake reminded me of Dexter. I can see how fans of the latter would enjoy this.

Children fear that monsters exist. Adults fear that they don’t - that the world is just a jigsaw of screwed-up people with good qualities as well as bad.

I love that there were riddles at the start of each chapter. My brain was reeling trying to figure out each answer, but I won't deny I had to go to Jack Heath's website for the rest of the majority of the answers. It was a nice touch that fits in well with Blake's knack for puzzles. I'm curious if there will be a sequel in the future.

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