Changes

And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victim. Daisy has problems with her memory - the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all the whos she's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she began. She knows she must be careful and she knows that one mistake could see it all unravel. But she's meticulous and careful - and gruesomely good at what she does. In fact, nobody even knows she's doing it.

It's an alternate narrative - serial killer and synaesthete policeman turn by turn. So if you like a mystery in your crime reading, ''Core of Evil'' probably isn't for you. There is a conspiracy subplot for you to guess at, but the murderer's doings are all there in black and white. I rather like it this way - the tension is watching the inevitable collision of the two strands, and in wondering how it will all be resolved.