4 Stars from me
I am delighted to be closing the blog tour for Fear in the New Forest!
Linda Mather is a new author to me and I loved following this story and getting to know the characters. This is the second installment in the DCI Elinor Saxby series but I didn’t feel I’d missed out by not reading the first book – needless to say if you are starting the series it makes sense to begin at the beginning. I’ve heard it’s a very good place to start.
There’s a delightful crispness to the descriptive elements of the book, be that when describing the brutal and devastating gunshot wound to the centre of the victim’s chest, or when detailing the scenes with the cold wetness of the shoreline and then dark encompassing depth of the forest.
The relational elements of the character development is spot on too – there’s clearly budding friendships, those with a deeper history, and a classic outsider attempting to become accepted. All of which help to define Elinor as a worthy opponent to the crime that she’s here to solve.
Overall this is a solid crime thriller and I believe it has the makings of being a wonderful series to follow. There’s depth, vulnerability and enough complexity to keep a reader wanting more.
My thanks to the author, Joffe Books and Zooloosbooktours for my place on this blog tour.
Author: @lindamather.writer
Publisher: @joffebooks
Zooloo’s Book Tours: @zooloosbooktours
Blurb: On a lonely stretch of shingle, where the Solent laps the forest’s edge, something terrible is about to wash ashore.
The bloated body of a young man. Several days dead.
A ragged wound gapes in his chest. Because this was no accident. He’s been shot at close range, then dumped.
City cop Elinor’s on the case — and utterly out of her depth.
The frosty coastguard tells Elinor the victim is a stranger. From out of town. But Elinor would swear she knows more than she’s saying . . .
Before long, a second body is discovered deep in the forest.
Same wound. Same cold-blooded MO. Same killer?
It’s up to Elinor to unravel the truth from the lies, before more victims die. But she’d better watch her back.
Because here in the New Forest, secrets run deeper — and darker — than the murky waters of the Solent itself.
Trusting the wrong person might just cost Elinor everything . . .
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