A Cracking Good Detective Novel!
Silent Ruin by David J. Gatward
Crime Thriller
Rating: 5 Stars
314 pages
Kindle Unlimited – Audio Book
Another great tale by the master of crime. I love how we meet new people and get right into their stories, then wonder how they fit into the detective story. The crime is t always evident for a while, and it not always based on a murder. The author keeps to guessing.
Then something happens! Slowly, the pieces begin to fit together. The crime emerges and the story is suddenly on a roll.
I always get the audio book as an accompaniment and the narrator brings the characters alive with different accents. It adds element to the story.
This one involves kidnap, horse racing, metal detectors, two young lovers and a group of bullies.
We will also get a story within the team too, but not in this book. However, they are are constant as is the wonderful scenery,
The book had me gripped from start to finish,.
This is the book description
A vanished couple. A disoriented treasure hunter. A body with suspicious injuries.
Harry Grimm is starting to feel like a local – almost. But when his quiet happiness is interrupted by a confused eighty-year-old detectorist claiming to have seen Medieval knights fighting in a nearby ruined castle, the chief inspector is forced to investigate the bizarre claims. However, his focus is soon split to a second case when a teen and her boyfriend disappear without a trace.
As the unflappable DCI spearheads the search for the young lovers, he and his team confront conflicting witnesses, spiraling hostilities, and enraged families pointing accusing fingers. And with the aging detectorist continuing to cause disturbances around the village, Grimm takes his muddled statements more seriously after the discovery of a brutally battered corpse.
Can this gruff detective follow the cryptic clues to a killer?
Silent Ruin is the dramatic fourteenth book in the DCI Harry Grimm Crime Thrillers series. If you like beloved casts of characters, dark mysteries, and rising tension, then you’ll adore David J. Gatward’s transfixing whodunit.
My Favourite Bits
As his dad would sometimes say, when you live somewhere that other folk visit for their holidays, then what need is there for us to visit anywhere else?
‘Also, the phone found at the scene; as it’s evidence from the collision, it was passed to my team to have a look at. We were able to pull a few things from the sim card.’ ‘Such as?’ ‘Not loads, I have to say, as most of the data was stored to a cloud account. We’ve put in an information request to access that, but I can tell you what we have found.’
When Harry had arrived, not only had he seen the smouldering shell of a caravan, and John’s old car, but also the ambulance, and instead of stopping in the parking area, he had simply driven over to where he now was, parking far enough away, just in case anything else went boom.
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