Author: Helen Durrant H.

Helen H. Durrant sets her books in the area where she lives and works, the North West of England, a place that the writer knows well, and which is located between two counties, between the city and the hills. This place full of industrial settlements and glimpses of lush countryside is a source of inspiration for her, so much so that Calladine and Bayliss, the two detective stars in the hit thriller series, are moving here.

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Next Victim

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, Book # 1
Joffe Books
January 17th, 2019
ebook by Netgalley
195
English
January 22, 2019 January 23, 2019

A young man’s body is found burnt and tortured by a Manchester canal. Detective Rachel King investigates. But she has a secret, the love of her life is a well-known villain. He has recently come back on the scene. But what does he really want? A brutal serial killer with a taste for good-looking young blonde men.
A student who believes she has a lost brother. But even her own father doesn’t believe her. She was involved with the first victim.
As the murders continue, can Rachel keep her family together and stop the killer?
The Detective DCI Rachel King. Thirty-nine year-old mother of two teenage daughters. Divorced from Alan. She lives in the Cheshire village of Poynton – about ten miles from central Manchester. She is good at her job, gets results but does make mistakes. One of them was getting involved with a budding villain in her teens. No one, family, friends or colleagues know anything about this.

About the book

I would like to thank NetGalley, Joffe Books and the author Helen H. Durrant for my ARC in exchange for an honest review. I chose this book because I knew the author, I’ve already read one of her series, so I didn’t read the synopsis, I saw that I could read a book of an author that I knew for free by giving my honest opinion and I immediately applied for it. Obviously I read it in English.

The book is set in Manchester, England and the protagonist is Rachel King, a detective at the head of the homicide squad. The book starts with a mystery, a 15-year-old girl who believes she had a twin brother named Alfie in the past. 3 years later and the body of a 20-year-old boy with a tattooed name, Alfie, is found.

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Dead Wrong

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, Book # 1
Joffe Books Mystery
July 3, 2015
ebook
197
English
June 5, 2018 June 10, 2018

A bag of severed fingers is found in the playground by a rough housing estate
Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole area erupts in violence. Their boss thinks it’s all down to drug lord Ray Fallon, but Calladine’s instincts say something far nastier is happening on the Hobfield housing estate.

Can this duo track down the murderer before anyone else dies and before the press publicize the gruesome crimes? Detectives Calladine and Bayliss are led on a trail which gets dangerously close to home. In a thrilling finale they race against time to rescue someone very close to Calladine’s heart.

About the book

Detective Inspector Tom Calladine and Detective Sergeant Ruth Bayliss are called to the scene of a grisly discovery in the local playground at Leesdon, near Manchester, England. A plastic bag with human fingers inside, is only the beginning of a terrible and brutal series of murders by a psychopathic killer who has no empathy for his victims. Calladine and Bayliss are sure that the crime is linked to the Hobfield estate where drug sales and criminals get together for illegal activities.

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