Voices from the Dead by Tony Bassett

4 Stars from me

There’s so much that really scratches the itch for me in this book. There’s a beauty influencer – honestly this intrigues me, the rise from being either just an ordinary kid, or the popular kid, or even the quiet no one notices me kid, into an adored influencer. Just incredible and I find it fascinating. Anyway, our Candy Goodhope (awesome name) is exactly that but who kills her and why?

The scenes where the lady thinks she witnesses a murder from her balcony were gripping – hard to imagine how you’d react in the same situation and I enjoyed the drama of it.

There follows a tightly constructed crime thriller with all the elements you would expect and it made for great reading – I am usually pretty good at spotting the killer early on but I missed it in this one!

My thanks to the author and Zooloos Book Tours for ARC in return for an honest review as a part of the blog tour.

Blurb: A murdered beauty influencer. A buried secret waiting to surface. A killer who’s already one step ahead.

In the picturesque Warwickshire town of Queensbridge, a retired nurse escapes to her hotel room looking for peace from the chaos of her great-nephew’s rowdy thirtieth birthday party. But to her horror she witnesses a brutal crime from her balcony — a young woman strangled in the room opposite.

Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy — staying at the same hotel after attending a nearby wedding — is first on the scene, and quickly realises this isn’t a random attack. The victim, glamorous beauty influencer Candy Goodhope, was living a double life — and everyone close to her has something to hide.

Roy’s boss, DCI Gavin Roscoe, takes charge of the investigation, and as the pair follow the trail, another brutal killing tears through the town. Roy is sure there’s a link between both murders, but Roscoe isn’t convinced.

But as Roy digs deeper, she closes in on a secret so dangerous someone will kill to protect it.

Because in this town, the past never stays buried — and even the dead still have a voice.

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