Hi all! I’m lucky to be on the tour for Out For Revenge by Tony Bassett today. With thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Tony Bassett for the copy of the book to join the tour.
When notorious gangland boss Tadeusz Filipowski is released from prison, several people start looking over their shoulder.
A volatile character, not shy of picking fights, Filipowski plans to expand his drugs empire and put his competitors on a backfoot. That’s until he turns up dead. Very dead.
DS Sunita Roy of the Heart of England police is handed the case but it’s a challenge to find the killer of a man with so many enemies.
DCI Gavin Roscoe would lend more support but he is busy nailing down suspicions of corruption plaguing the force.
Soon, however, the investigations will bump into one another. And unless Roy and Roscoe can get to the bottom of the mystery, they could well become the next victims.
OUT FOR REVENGE is the fourth gripping standalone mystery in the Detectives Roy and Roscoe crime fiction series by Tony Bassett.
A police procedural by a new author who I have heard tons of good stuff about! What more could I want? Maybe to have read the first three book in the series! It turned out I didn’t need to, although I WANT to! Out For Revenge easily reads as a standalone as Tony Bassett makes sure that the reader is kept up to speed as is needed.
Set in and around Birmingham/the Midlands area. The story centres on detectives DS Sunita Roy and DCI Gavin Roscoe who are both investigating separate cases. As their investigations deepen it becomes clear they have similarities that can’t be ignored.
I don’t know why I haven’t read any of Tony Bassett’s books before. I now know what I have been missing. I so enjoy a well-written police procedural and Out For Revenge is one that was packed with action and intrigue from the first page. It swept me up into Roy and Roscoe’s world and became such an addictive read.
From gangland bosses to possibly corrupt officers, my attention never wavered throughout. On top of that were the well developed characters that made me feel they could be real. Such a page turner! Yet another series I need to add to my tbr pile. And another recommendation for any crime or police procedural readers.
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Author Bio
I am a semi-retired journalist who was born in West Kent. While growing up, I spent hours reading and writing, and, from an early age, nursed an ambition to become first a journalist and then novelist. My theory was that, in order to write novels, one had to have life experiences to colour one’s writing and one could obtain those experiences through journalism.
I was fortunate enough to be named Time-Life Magazine Student Journalist of the Year in 1971 in a competition organised by the National Union of Students. At the time, I was editing the student newspaper at Hull University, where I gained a BA Honours degree in History and Political Studies.
After six years working on provincial newspapers in Sidcup, Worcester and Cardiff, I became a freelance journalist in London. For 24 years, I was a reporter on the staff of the Sunday People (now part of Reach plc, formerly Trinity Mirror). Over the years, I sold tens of thousands of stories to the national newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Star, Daily Telegraph and London Evening Standard. I helped cover the Jeremy Thorpe trial at the Old Bailey for the Evening Standard. I broke the news in a Sun newspaper exclusive in April 1989 that Bill Wyman, the Rolling Stones guitarist aged 52, was to marry 18-year-old Mandy Smith. I bought 200 blank MOT forms to expose a trade in fake certificates.
My speciality was tracking people down. For instance, I found evidence about Rod Stewart’s secret love child Sarah Streeter by tracing a retired adoption agent through a library ticket. On one occasion, I took an escaped gangster back to prison. Some of my stories can be read on my website (see below); others are generally available online. For thirty years, I was also employed as a birth and marriage researcher mainly for the Mail on Sunday, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People and The Sun.
I have a grown-up son and four grown-up daughters who all live in South Wales.
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Tony Bassett writes: Thank you very much, Sharon, for your kind remarks and for finding space on your website to mention my crime novel, OUT FOR REVENGE. Best wishes, T
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