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Blog Tour Review: Dead Jealous by Helen H Durrant

Dead Jealous Dead Jealous by Helen H. Durrant
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Blog Tour review


A teenage girl is found in the back of a car on the notorious Hobfield estate.She has been dead for a week and yet no one has reported her missing.Why was she killed and why do her friends all seem to have something to hide?.

Meanwhile an old jar containing ashes and bone is brought into the station.It was found carefully wrapped in a pink blanket with a child's pink hairclip.

Seventeen years ago little Jessica Wilkins disappeared from Leesdon Park one summer afternoon.

Her Mother had gone to get the child an ice cream and when she returned the child had gone.Over the years there were no sightings,no witnesses - nothing.

Detective Tom Calladine had been part of the original investigation and the case has haunted him ever since.Will he finally be able to solve and close this unsolved mystery?.

I really enjoyed this gripping,twist packed mystery.It made a refreshing change to read about a police team who were friends as well as colleagues and worked well together as a team.I loved the closeness and banter between Tom Calladine and Ruth Bayliss,they obviously were very close and cared deeply about each other.It was lovely to read a book in which the police investigations weren't bogged down by interdepartmental back stabbing and point scoring.

Both of the cases were intreguing and kept me guessing from the shocking prologue to the unexpected conclusions of the crimes.The chapters were short and snappy and the story flowed along nicely with no parts of the story being over descriptive and coming across as padding.The characters and settings were well developed and realistic.

Although events from earlier books in the series are mentioned this book can be read and enjoyed as a stand alone.This is the first book that I have read by this author and it most definitely will not be the last.

Many thanks to Joffe books for a arc of this book via netgalley in exchange for a honest review.


                                       


Author Bio

HELEN H. DURRANT

OVER 450,00 books sold of her Calladine & Bayliss and DI Greco Series

I’m one of the ‘baby boomer’ generation. I was born in Edinburgh to an English father and Scottish mother. My father was from the North West of England and this was where the family settled.

I know the area well, both the good and the bad, and so I set my books here. Sitting between two counties, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and between the city and the hills, it offers a rich mix of the industrial and the countryside and all the character therein. I always planned to write crime novels — to create the characters in my books. Since my retirement from a busy teaching job in FE, this is what I’ve done — almost to exclusion of anything else!

I have a grown-up family and five grandchildren. They see me as something of an eccentric — always on my laptop writing away. Writing is something of a second career and, despite having a bus pass, keeps me busy, young and tuned in the world as it currently is.

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                                                                                                                DEAD JEALOUS is book seven of a new series of detective thrillers featuring D.S. Ruth Bayliss and D.I. Tom Calladine.

THE DETECTIVES Tom Calladine is a detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life, however, is not so successful. Having been married and divorced before the age of twenty-one has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape.

Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-thirties, plain-speaking but loyal. She is balancing her professional life with looking after a small child.

THE SETTING The fictional village of Leesdon on the outskirts of an industrial northern English city. There is little work and a lot of crime. The bane of Calladine’s life is the Hobfield housing estate, breeding ground to all that is wrong with the area that he calls home.

THE DCI GRECO BOOKS Book 1: DARK MURDER Book 2: DARK HOUSES Book 3: DARK TRADE

THE CALLADINE & BAYLISS MYSTERY SERIES Book 1: DEAD WRONG Book 2: DEAD SILENT Book 3: DEAD LIST Book 4: DEAD LOST Book 5: DEAD & BURIED Book 6: DEAD NASTY Book 7: DEAD JEALOUS





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