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The Crossing

Detective Louise Blackwell, Book 1

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The Crossing

By: Matt Brolly
Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.

In a small town full of secrets, everyone’s a suspect.

When a body is discovered, bled dry on a beach, the sleepy seaside town of Weston-super-Mare wakes up to a nightmare. For Detective Inspector Louise Blackwell, recently transferred to the town she last saw as a child, it’s her first case on the job.

The victim - Veronica Lloyd, an elderly volunteer at a local church - has puncture wounds to her hands. When a priest is found killed in a nearby church in a similarly grisly condition, it becomes clear that Blackwell is dealing with a righteous and bloody murderer. But the victims aren’t random. The killer has a vendetta and is hell-bent on exacting twisted revenge for a dark secret dating back years - and there are more murders planned.

As the body count rises, Blackwell faces a race against time to solve the mystery of the murderer’s identity and put an end to the carnage. She thought she knew Weston, but the town holds more secrets than she’d ever have imagined. Who can she trust and who knows more than they are letting on?

She must discover the crimes that unite the victims - before it’s too late.

©2020 Matthew Brolly (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Murder Thriller British Detective

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I will be downloading the next in this series. I found the authors first in series a real treat, I always like to read detective series I enjoy Joy Ellis, J L Ross and Rachel Abbots Detective series and this Author I will add to those too. The Narrator Danielle Cohen was excellent too.

First book in series and really enjoyable.

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A fast paced collection of murders with a persistent female CCI! I must listen to the next book straight away as I want to hear more of her adventures!

Weston-super-mare will never be the same for me!

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great narrator is really brought it alive great plot and characters would recommend to others

very good

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This book was so easy to follow particularly as I live have lived n the area.

worth the read

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This is the first book in the DI Louise Blackwell series.
This feels like how I would imagine it to be in a police station. Louise was on her way to becoming a DCI in the MIT. Her partner at the time whilst on a case together made a call that caused Louise to shoot someone. This case went against her because there were two versions of the story and it meant she was sent to a force far quieter force and losing the promotion.

The pace of the book is much slower than some of the crime books I have read but I thinks it’s deliberate to match the slow paced force she ends up in with mainly minor offences, until a murder occurs….

This case sparks Louise’s interest and as the case becomes interesting her ex partner now a DCI in her old force wants to take it over and it means Louise could possibly lose the case.

Will Louise keep the case? As more bodies appear will the killer be caught before the last kill that the killer thinks will mean atonement for what happened with his father which I won’t reveal…..

*Slow Paced Drama*

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