I am thrilled to bring Date With Betrayal by Julia Chapman to the blog today on behalf of Random Things Tours. Thanks to Pan Macmillan for the copy of the book to give you my unbiased and honest opinion today.
In the seventh novel in Julia Chapman’s Dales Detective series, Date with Betrayal, betrayal is rife in the idyllic Yorkshire Dales as Samson O’Brien, owner of the Dales Detective Agency, is targeted by a hitman. Can Bruncliffe save him?
Death is coming to Bruncliffe: its target is Samson O’Brien.
Oblivious to his impending date with fate, Samson is busy juggling a number of cases at the Dales Detective Agency. Too busy, in fact, to notice his partner behaving oddly.
Because Delilah Metcalfe knows what is coming. A hitman. Sent from London with one objective: to finally silence the troublesome O’Brien before his corruption case can make it to court.
With Samson’s life in peril, and betrayal around every corner, Delilah has no choice but to call in favours from all of her Bruncliffe connections in order to counteract the menace threatening to engulf the Dales town.
The only trouble is the townsfolk have long memories and deep grievances when it comes to Samson O’Brien. Trust must be earned and they will take some convincing before they put themselves in danger in order to save him.
And even then, it might not prove enough . .
The seventh book in The Dales Detective series. I haven’t read any of them so went into this book with no expectations. The cover and synopsis made me want to read it. I must say this is a series that I am so sorry to be coming in at book seven.
Set in Bruncliffe, a village in the Yorkshire Dales. Samson O’Brien is the owner of the Dales Detective agency and an ex-undercover Detective in the Met has quite a few cases to deal with. There is a dating agency in the same building at the Detective agency, It is run by Delilah Metcalfe who seems to know that Samson is being targeted as he is due to give evidence in a corruption trial.
This is a cosy mystery that is a little edgier than the usual cosy mystery and there are parts of the story that are an edge of your seat read. The next minute you are chuckling at the escapades of the pensioners. This is the reason I Iove being a blogger. The amount of amazing books I discover just by being invited to book tours is unbelievable really. Date with Betrayal is one such book.
Julia Chapman’s characters made me feel like I was with friends even though I didn’t really know their back stories I was still drawn into their world and felt like I was included. It may be cosy but boring it wasn’t. Such a fast paced, interesting, funny, edgy story that has worked its magic on me. I want to read the first six books before the eighth book is out. That’s the plan anyway.
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