25.11.17

Review: The Call by Amanda Fleet

The Call The Call by Amanda Fleet
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



                             THE BLURB

Summer Morris would have been happy to never hear from her ex lover Patrick again.Unfortunately she has just received a phone call from him begging for help,it appears that his life is in danger.Even though their relashionship ended badly,can she really refuse to help him.

Although Patrick can be very charming,he also has many enemies who might want him dead.He had been working in Malawai and might have uncovered a scandal,he has been involved with a powerful woman,has made another woman pregnant and has borrowed money from the wrong people.

Along with a off - duty policeman,DS Stewart,Summer gets swept up in Patrick's world of lies and deceit,in a desperate race against time to hopefully find him alive.


                                                            MY THOUGHTS     

This character driven thriller mainly features Summer and DS Stewart although there are parts that follow a number of secondary characters.Some of my favourite parts featured Moyenda who lived in Malawai and was project manager for a charity that helped orphaned children,his parts of the story were sinister and intreguing.Hopefully the author is planning a sequel that will answer some of the questions pertaining to the disappearance of the young boys.I also enjoyed the parts featuring another character but can't say too much about those parts without giving away spoilers.

It's a enjoyable read that has some gripping action scenes and a number of decent twists but I also felt that parts of the book dragged at times and slowed down the pace of the story.I really liked DS Stewart, Summer and Moyenda and would love to read more books featuring them in the future.


                                                                AUTHOR BIO


Author Bio Amanda Fleet is a physiologist by training and a writer at heart. She spent 18 years teaching science and medicine undergraduates at St Andrews University, but now uses her knowledge to work out how to kill people (in her books!). She completed her first degree at St Andrews University and her doctorate at University College, London.

She has been an inveterate stationery addict since a child, amassing a considerable stash of fountain pens, ink and notebooks during her lifetime. These have thankfully come in useful, as she tends to write rather than type, at least in the early stages of writing a book.

During her time at St Andrews, she was involved with two Scottish Government funded projects, working with the College of Medicine in Blantyre, Malawi. While in Malawi, she learned about the plight of the many street children there and helped to set up a Community Based Organisation that works with homeless Malawian children to support them through education and training – Chimwemwe Children’s Centre. It was this experience that helped to shape the Malawian aspects in her first novel, The Wrong Kind of Clouds.

Amanda lives in Scotland with her husband, where she can be found writing, walking and running. The Wrong Kind of Clouds is her début novel and was published by Matador in early 2016. It will be re-published by Joffe Books.

You can follow Amanda on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

PUBLICATION DATE : 19 November 2017

PUBLISHERS : Joffe Books

GENRE : Psychological Thriller

Purchase Here...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/CALL-gripping-crime-thriller-twists-ebook/dp/B077MQKPQX/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511569325&sr=1-5&keywords=The+call






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