It’s great to be able to say I have Death On The Crags by Jo Allen on the blog. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Jo Allen for my place on the tour and the copy of the book.
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.
I love this series and I am so happy I have had a chance to return to the DCI Jude Satterwaite mysteries. I have read a number of the series and found they are such cosy mysteries. Death On The Crags is the ninth book, although they can all be read as standalones, I would say that to fully appreciate the characters, read the others first.
Set around the Lake District in Cumbria, this book sees a visiting police officer, Thomas Davies, falling from a crag while walking with Mia, his girlfriend. DCI Jude Satterwaite is called out to deal with this accident. A witness to the accident throws doubt on whether it was accidental or not. Jude and the team begin to investigate the incident and Thomas Davies. They find he wasn’t as well liked as they thought. His girlfriend Mia doesn’t seem to want to speak to the police, but why?
Jo Allen has the skill to keep the reader glued to the story. The sense of place is so strong and has been in every book I have read in this series. I can imagine I’m in the Lake District with the characters as the story unfolds. This is a series I always enjoy returning to time and time again. The plot is always twisty, with Jude and the team doing their utmost to get to the truth of the investigation.
A definite page turner that ticks every box for me to recommend this book, or even series for any police procedural reader.
Purchase Links
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BB33T34Y
US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB33T34Y
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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