#BlogTour #Review : Death Comes to Call by Claire Chase. @bookouture

Blurb:

Frost sparkles on the bare winter branches, as night falls over the quiet country lanes bordering the fens. But nestled beneath an ivy-covered bough, a body lies pale in the bright moonlight…

When a promising local artist disappears, the victim’s brother begs Detective Tara Thorpe to take the case. It seems there’s no evidence of foul play… he simply disappeared without a trace.

Tara agrees to do some digging… never mind that her unorthodox approach to policing has got a few of her colleagues’ backs up. Amongst them is her former supervisor Detective Patrick Wilkins… he’s had enough of Tara calling the shots and will do anything to knock her down. She must be careful.

At least she has an ally in their boss, Detective Garstin Blake. He’ll always back her hunches. If anything, they work together too well… at least, that’s the rumour around the station these days.

When a body of a young woman is found frozen near the fens, Tara’s evidence suddenly becomes key to solving a high-profile murder. Is their missing artist still a victim… or in fact a clever murderer with a deadly plan?

An unputdownable page-turner that will keep you hooked until the very last page!

My Review: I’ve visited Cambridge a few times and loved it and was excited to read a book set there so when the option of being on this tour appeared I jumped at the chance.

It took me a little while to get into the story, whether that is because I haven’t read the previous ones in the series I’m not sure, however once I got into it I really enjoyed it. It moved along at a good pace with lots of leads for the police to follow and therefore lots of information that keeps the reader guessing.

Despite where it is set I didn’t get a strong sense of location which is something I like in the books I read. However, I did get a good sense of the characters, they were well formed and their feelings and emotions came across clearly, even those who were only in it for a page or two. This is definitely a police procedural and it gave me a good idea of the amount of leg work involved in an investigation, particularly one with many lines of enquiry as this one.

This is a good story and one that will keep you interested and wanting to know more but I think it works better if you read the others in the series first to get more of the character and relationship development.

About the author:

Clare Chase writes women sleuth mysteries and recently signed a three-book deal with Bookouture for a new crime series set in Cambridge. The opening book, Murder on the Marshes, is available for pre-order and will publish in July 2018. The mystery follows investigative journalist Tara Thorpe as she teams up with Detective Garstin Blake to solve the murder of a young female professor at Cambridge University. The case takes them through the dark underbelly of Cambridge and in to the murky fens that surround the centuries-old city. The second and third books in the series are scheduled for publication in late 2018/early 2019.
After graduating from London University with a degree in English Literature, Clare moved to Cambridge and has lived there ever since. She’s fascinated by the city’s contrasts and contradictions, which feed into her writing. She’s worked in diverse settings – from the 800-year-old University to one of the local prisons – and lived everywhere from the house of a Lord to a slug-infested flat. The terrace she now occupies, with her husband and teenage children, presents a good happy medium.
As well as writing, Clare loves family time, art and architecture, cooking, and of course, reading other people’s books.
Clare’s debut novel, You Think You Know Me, was shortlisted for the Novelicious Undiscovered Award 2012, and an EPIC award in 2015. It was also chosen as a debut of the month by Lovereading.
You can find Clare’s website and blog at

www.clarechase.com

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