I am so pleased to say I am hosting a stop on the book tour for Fires of Hate by Heather Pecknon behalf of Random Things Tours. Thanks to Anne Cater and Heather Peck for the copy of the book to bring you my honest and unbiased thoughts today.
After a successful day in court, Greg Geldard is hoping to clear up some routine cases. Then a government laboratory receives a mysterious threat, a terrorist attack precipitates a multi-agency emergency response and his investigations are seriously compromised by interference from the security service.
The enquiries lead down dangerous paths, with both Greg and someone he cares for put at risk, before he runs the perpetrators to ground. Then he’s posed an ethical conundrum in court. Can hate ever be wholly sane?
Fires of Hate continues the Greg Geldard series; a compelling narrative of crime, emotion, and one man’s fight to do the best he can.
Fires of Hate is the third book in the DCI Greg Geldard series. I have read both the previous books and thoroughly loved them both. I knew this book would be just as good as the others, that is the quality of Heather Pecks’ writing.
DCI Geldard is a character who I have enjoyed getting to know throughout the series. As the series has gone on he has grown and in this book I saw his softer side. This made him even more human, to me anyway. I do think Heather Peck is excellent in the way she makes her characters real, their depth and the individual parts they play, makes each one interesting and unique too.
Every book in the series has educated me in some way. Fires of Hate delves into the world of government laboratory research testing. After a Laboratory is threatened and attacked, there is an investigation which Geldard is part of. Not everything is as cut and dried as It should be and secrets are abound as the mystery deepens. A storyline that had me guessing so much. I love a story with plenty of intrigue.
Fires of Hate doesn’t stop giving as the pages turned faster as I read. This is a tightly plotted and superbly written book. With tension that is almost palpable as the mystery deepens and the twists arrive, I was so engaged that I ignored every distraction and couldn’t put it down at all.
A highly recommended read for anyone who enjoys a crime thriller which is authentic and such a thrilling read too.
Author Bio
Heather Peck is the author of the Greg Geldard series of murder mysteries, set in rural North Yorkshire and Norfolk. Her long career in both the policy and muddy-boots practice of agriculture is immediately apparent in the books, which are firmly and colourfully set in the world of farming and farmers. Although it has to be admitted that the Norfolk Broads and coast also feature.
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, she blames their many family holidays on farms for the interests that led her to work in the Ministry of Agriculture / Defra (her farmer husband was regularly described as sleeping with the enemy) and also to the commercial breeding of both sheep and alpacas.
Alongside her writing, in which she is ably supported by two canine assistants, she is Chair of Lantra UK, a Trustee of Norfolk Citizens Advice and volunteers as a Citizens Advice adviser and in the Witness Service. She has recently put her name forward to train as a Covid vaccinator. As she says,
‘all that experience of vaccinating sheep and alpacas should come in handy – provided I remember not to turn anyone upside down and don’t mark the backs of their necks with wax crayon when dosed.’
She hopes to grow up to be Granny Weatherwax – or a Lady who Lunches – either will do.
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