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Death on the Crags by Jo Allen
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Death on the Crags
A DCI Jude Satterthwaite mystery
(DCI Satterthwaite #9)
by Jo Allen

Everybody loves Thomas Davies. Don’t they?

When policeman Thomas Davies falls from a crag on a visit to the Lake District in full view of his partner, Mia, it looks for all the world like a terrible but unfortunate accident — until a second witness comes forward with a different story.

Alerted to the incident, DCI Jude Satterthwaite is inclined to take it seriously — not least because of Mia’s reluctance to speak to the police about the incident. As Jude and his colleagues, including his on-off partner DS Ashleigh O’Halloran, tackle the case, they’re astonished by how many people seem to have a reason to want all-round good guy Thomas out of the way.

With the arrival of one of Thomas’s colleagues to assist the local force, the investigation intensifies. As the team unpick the complicated lives of those who claim to care for Thomas but have good reasons to want him dead, they find themselves digging deeper and deeper into a web of blackmail and cruelty … and investigating a second death.

A traditional British police procedural mystery set in Cumbria.

Purchase Links
UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BB33T34Y

US – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB33T34Y

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REVIEW

Going into this I missed that this was book nine in the DCI Jude Satterthwaite mystery series from Jo Allen, that being said this was easily read as a stand alone novel, though definitely having read the previous would have given me a better insight to the characters development.

Death on the Crags takes us to the picturesque yet deadly Lake District, filled with hillwalkers taking on the crags but when Thomas Davies falls from the top of the crags whilst his partner Mia watches from afar, the question has to be asked was it an accident or was he pushed? When DCI Jude arrives at the scene on his day off he soon discovers that Thomas was a fellow police officer and it appears that he had many enemies, making Judes job that little bit harder.

I loved the setting the book take place in, I love visiting the Lakes, though I never go hillwalking – too scared I would fall! Jude and his team are great characters and they have been well fleshed out (they should be as its book 9) and  I loved Jo Allen’s style.

4 stars

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Author Bio –

Jo Allen was born in Wolverhampton and is a graduate of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and the Open University, with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in geography and Earth science. She’s been writing for pleasure and publication for as long as she can remember. After a career in economic consultancy she took up writing and was first published under the name Jennifer Young, in genres of short stories, romance and romantic suspense. She wrote online articles on travel and on her favourite academic subject, Earth science. In 2017 she took the plunge and began writing the genre she most likes to read — crime.

Jo lives in the English Lakes, where the DCI Satterthwaite series is set. In common with all her favourite characters, she loves football (she’s a season ticket holder with her beloved Wolverhampton Wanderers) and cats.

 

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