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Voices From The Dead by Tony Bassett

Jan10

Highly Entertaining

Voices From The Dead by Tony Bassett is a marvellous contemporary crime novel that I really enjoyed. It is the eighth book in the Detectives Roy & Roscoe series but can be read as a stand-alone. I enjoyed meeting up with familiar faces as once more, the Central England police force is taxed with solving a double murder.

Tony Bassett has created a fabulous plotline with small branches sprouting from the main trunk. The reader is thrown the same crumbs as the detectives as we all try to guess the perpetrator. I fell for a few red herrings along the way.

All the characters were well drawn and realistic. The villains were definitely shady. The police force was relentless in its’ pursuit of justice.

Characters’ lives had inter-connected with others over the years. There were definitely some shady characters to contend with.

I thoroughly enjoyed Voices From The Dead. It was a highly entertaining novel that kept me glued and guessing.

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Not My Valentine by Tony Bassett

May20

Gripping

Not My Valentine by Tony Bassett is a fabulous contemporary crime suspense that I just could not put down. It is the seventh book in the Detectives Roy & Roscoe series but can be read as a stand-alone.

I enjoyed meeting up with familiar faces. Easy banter flowed between the regular police officers. We see the tenacity of the law to solve the case as we drop in on the detectives.

Present day murder is investigated alongside a cold case. The law enforcement officers are relentless in their pursuit of justice and the reader applauds their commitment.

The action is set in the Midlands with a murder in Worcester, and chasing criminals around Birmingham and the Black Country. As a Black Country wench living in Worcestershire, the locations were incredibly familiar to me. This helped me to really bed down into the book.

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It Never Rains by Tony Bassett

Nov2

Well Constructed

It Never Rains by Tony Bassett is an engrossing contemporary crime thriller that I just could not put down. It is part of the Detectives Roy & Roscoe series which I love.

The setting is in the Midlands, around Warwick and Stratford. As a Black Country girl, I was familiar with some of the places and was thrilled to see that Bewdley, where I live, was mentioned – it doesn’t normally crop up in novels. I am very familiar with the location of Worcester and knew exactly where the author was talking about.

Tony Bassett has constructed a marvellous plotline. It was well thought out and executed. I was totally gripped from the start.

As the book starts, the reader is on the ‘side’ of the pipe and slippers brigade.

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