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THE OPTICIAN (Detective Jason Smith #35) by Stewart Giles

From bestselling author: Stewart Giles comes another brilliant addition to the Detective Jason Smith.
‘Open your eyes.’

Two dead women. Both of them incredibly beautiful, and both of them have had their eyeballs removed and squeezed back in their sockets.
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Detective Jason Smith is no stranger to weird murders, but this one has him baffled.

When another victim is found, things take a turn for the worse when the trolls on social media join the party.

This is no ordinary killer, and Smith knows he’s going to have to change his whole mindset if he’s going to stand a chance of catching the psychopath the city has dubbed The Optician.

Stewart Giles – Author Bio

After reading English at 3 Universities and graduating from none of them, I set off travelling around the world with my wife, Ann, finally settling in South Africa, where we still live. 
In 2014 Ann dropped a rather large speaker on my head and I came up with the idea for a detective series. DS Jason Smith was born. Smith, the first in the series was finished a few months later. 
3 years and 8 DS Smith books later, Joffe Books wondered if I would be interested in working with them. As a self-published author, I agreed. However, we decided on a new series – the DC Harriet Taylor: Cornwall series.
The Beekeeper was published and soon hit the number one spot in Australia. The second in the series, The Perfect Murder did just as well. 
I continued to self-publish the Smith series and Unworthy hit the shelves in 2018 with amazing results.  I therefore made the decision to self-publish The Backpacker which is book 3 in the Detective Harriet Taylor series which was published in July 2018.
After The Backpacker I had an idea for a totally new start to a series – a collaboration between the Smith and Harriet thrillers and The Enigma was born. It brought together the broody, enigmatic Jason Smith and the more level-headed Harriet Taylor. 
The Miranda trilogy is something totally different. A psychological thriller trilogy. It is a real departure from anything else I’ve written before. 
The Detective Jason Smith series continues to grow. I also have another series featuring an Irish detective who relocated to Guernsey, the Detective Liam O’Reilly series. There are also 3 stand alone novels.

Website: http://www.stewartgiles.com
Twitter: @stewartgiles
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stewart.giles.33

My Review We all know by now I’m definitely considering myself a No 1 Stewart Giles fan. So it’s no surprise I LOVED this at all. One that actually made me squeamish though, thats a first!! Eyeballs removed and then replaced in their sockets, well jammed in. Proper stomach churning. But admittedly got me hooked, I needed more context, how, why, who would do such an overkill thing, whats their motive, their story. Its such an aggressive and personal act.

Little does Smith realise his routine visit to the Optician may just help him solve the case of these gruesome murders, and stop them before any more appear. Truly an engaging twisted story. Late nights will happen when you read Stewart Giles, he is a master of the page turners. I guarantee you will be so immersed and hooked, you’ll find yourself holding your breath, heart racing and hours will whizz by.