In a fish market shed in Apollo Bay, a young woman is found murdered—bound and savagely mutilated. Once a beauty, she’s now barely recognizable, and with a message carved into her stomach, but who is it for? Melbourne Homicide Detectives Carson, a former criminal profiler for the FBI, and his partner Declan are tasked with figuring it out before the killer strikes again. And he will—because to him, murder is more than just the killing, it is justice. As more victims show up, and the kidnapping, torturing, and mutilation show no sign of stopping, Carson and Declan are thrown into a whirlwind of inconceivable evil; a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a sadistic psychopath. As Carson struggles to link the seemingly random victims and their locations, the killer calmly plans his next move.

The Club is the second book in the Will Carson crime thriller series. Money can buy you anything. An extravagant house, luxury car, drugs, sex. It can even buy your deepest, darkest, most sadistic desires. The Club is a terrifying and ruthless establishment with a straightforward set of rules: Pay with cash or your life. Its members pay to exist in a world beyond their imagination. What others only fantasise, they do – sucked into a monstrous reality where nothing is beyond. Melbourne Homicide Detective Carson, a former criminal profiler for the FBI, and his partner Declan find themselves drawn unwittingly into a dark, twisted and secretive game where the highest bidder takes all. In a catastrophic sequence of events, Carson is forced to face his demons or risk of losing everyone he loves. If you enjoy fast-paced, violent, police procedurals with a curious cliff hanger and something a little outside the usual American or British settings, then you’ll love this second instalment in Lara Coates’s page-turning series.