4.5 Stars from me
Loved this introduction to DS Gabriella ‘Gabe’ Martin and DI Juliet Stern by Anna Britton. Both are quirky in different ways and with a ‘chalk and cheese’ approach to interviews, people, and life.
Alongside a cracking police procedural to find the killer of 17-year-old Melanie Pirt, snippets of the lives and history of Gabe and Juliet are revealed via a series of text messages, emails, and phone calls. This is a clever way of delivering information and building up the characters without being too much of an ‘info dump’. It is clear there is much to learn about both of them and I am really looking forward to book two.
The hunt to find Melanie’s murder is completely engrossing and the suspect field is large – each appearing to be a valid suspect and hard to rule out. Just because someone is a liar doesn’t mean they are a murderer, or does it?
Blurb: Run.
Moonlight slants through the trees on the ancestral Dunlow estate, where a young woman runs for her life. Gunshots break the silence.
The next morning, the body of seventeen-year-old student Melanie Pirt is found.
DS Gabe Martin is more than ready to take the lead on her first murder case. Determined to prove herself to the cold and mysterious DI Juliet Stern, Gabe can’t afford any distractions – especially not ones that wake her in the night, reminding her of a past she’d rather forget.
Because while Gabe and Juliet have few leads, there are plenty of suspects. And every one of them is lying…
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