It’s good that not every book starts with a murder.
Blood Trail by David J. Gatward.
Crime thriller series, book ten.
Pages: 354
Kindle Unlimited and Audio Book.
Rating: 5 Stars
It would be boring to begin every book with a murder. The ones in Blood Trail don’t properly occur until nearer the end. The crime is based is based around theft.
What makes this story most enjoyable are the people in it. Brought to life by Aubrey Parsons who does an accent for each one on the audio version.
Another big feature in the story is the setting in the beautiful Yorkshire villages and landscape. It adds another layer of interest. As the characters enjoy where they live, so does the reader.
A recommended series for any crime lover.
This book is also standalone. The storyline and excellent plot is this:
A gruesome tradition, a blood-spattered crime scene, and a killer hiding in plain sight.
Detective Harry Grimm is a worried man. When a group of vigilante locals start patrolling the Dales in response to a recent spate of crimes, he is forced to warn them off. Things only get more complicated when he is called out to multiple crime scenes – each with plenty of blood but no bodies.
Very soon, though, body parts start turning up. Delivered in a way that echoes a local poem and an old-but-grisly village ceremony. Faced with the bloody evidence in front of him, Grimm soon realises that his worst fears have come true: someone has already taken the law into their own hands.
With an ancient tradition being used to commit modern-day murder, can this battle-scarred detective stop the lanes of the Dales running red with blood?
Blood Trail is the tenth book in the riveting Harry Grimm police procedural series. If you like compelling characters, twisting plots, and beautiful British countryside settings, then you’ll love David J. Gatward’s nail-biting mystery.
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Soon, she was racing along, just quick enough to make the journey interesting, but not so fast as to be out of control or unable to react should something leap out in front of her. Over the years she had dodged everything from rabbits and badgers, to hedgehogs, deer and, on one particularly memorable day, an emu. The beautiful village of Bainbridge came and went in a swift blur of midnight green and Gordy sped out the other side, up the hill, and past the old Roman Fort.
‘Morning,’ Harry said, with a wave. ‘I’m—’ ‘Oh, I know who you are,’ the man said. ‘Detective Grimm, if I’m not mistaken, which I’m not.’ Harry wasn’t quite sure how to take that. ‘Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm. Was it you who called in about this?’ ‘It was,’ the man said. ‘Mr Calvert?’ ‘That’s me,’ the man said. ‘You here to tow it away, are you? No way you’ll be driving it with the tyres like that. Look at the state of them. Can’t have happened on the road here, though, can it? No potholes on it for miles.
‘The reason I ask is that it’s my job to ask, that’s all. Detective, remember? And I can see that you’re a very organised man, Mr Calvert. But things do end up in places they shouldn’t, as I’m sure you know. And maybe, whoever brought all of this back has put it somewhere else.’ ‘Well, they haven’t,’ Fred said, then he pointed at the wall. ‘See that?’ Harry stared. He saw a hook. Then he saw that on the wall an outline had been sketched out in faded black paint. The outline was roughly the shape of a chainsaw. ‘And it’s always hung there, has it?’ ‘It has,’ Fred said. ‘And you’ll see that it’s not, so that means it’s not here. And as I’m the only one who lives and works here, then you can understand my wondering as to its whereabouts. Because I’ve checked everywhere in this barn, in the other barns as well, even in the pick-up and trailer themselves, and it’s nowhere to be found.’
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