Welcome back to the blog, everyone! Today, I have the pleasure of closing the blog tour for Bad Blood by R D Nixon. Thanks to Donna Morfett of DLM Book Tours and R D Nixon for the gifted copy of this marvellous book!
There’s an art to staying alive
Abergarry, Scotland
1998
The art world is shaken by the brutal and very public murder of a dealer, who’d unknowingly sold a forged painting. By contrast, the death of a woman strangled in her own home, in the same year, barely causes a ripple and remains unsolved.
2019
An acquaintance of the murdered woman is spotted near the crime scene, years after being declared dead himself. The woman’s daughter, Hazel Douglas suspects him of being involved in her mother’s murder. She engages local PI team Maddy Clifford and Paul Mackenzie to reopen the case.
Then a third murder seems to close the circle, with Hazel at its centre. With the focus now on her, Hazel places her life and her freedom in the hands of a trusted friend, but as the investigation takes a sinister turn, she realises she can’t trust anyone… And her options are disappearing fast.
I am one of the lucky ones who read both of the previous books in this series. These are both as well written as each other. Even after just the first book, I classed R D Nixon as one of my go-to authors! When I realised the third book, Bad Blood, was going on tour, I knew i had to take part!
We are back with Maddy Clifford and Paul MacKenzie. Hazel Douglas hires them to investigate the appearance of a man who was declared dead years before. He was also an acquaintance of Hazel’s mother. She was murdered 21 years previously, and Hazel thinks the man she saw is connected somehow. As the story unfolds, Maddy and Paul’s investigation suddenly turns darker, and ultimately, Hazel finds herself with no one to trust and nowhere to go.
R D Nixon surpasses my expectations with every book she writes. Again, I was straight back with Maddy and Paul. She has the knack of making the reader feel like they are there,with the characters watching the story play out. Right from the beginning, the tone is set for the book. One that never slows not for one minute. The action, tension, and darkness of the story had me hooked yet again to this trilogy.
If this series had to end at all, Bad Blood is the perfect book to end on. R D Nixon’s writing always grips me, no matter which genre she writes. This trilogy is up there for me. Characters were built so well, the plot of any of the books in the trilogy all spot on.
Bad Blood had my mind in overdrive throughout, and I was dying to find it all out! I got to a point where I had to remind myself to breathe, lol. I am sad to leave this series, but I am so looking forward to R D Nixon’s next book! I can so highly recommend this book or even the trilogy. Yes, they are that good!
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About Terri Nixon
Terri was born in Plymouth in 1965. At the age of 9 she moved with her family to North Hill, Cornwall, a small village on the edge of Bodmin Moor, where she discovered a love of writing that has stayed with her ever since. She also discovered apple-scrumping, and how to jump out of a hayloft without breaking any bones, but no-one’s ever offered to pay her for doing those. Terri is the author of the Oaklands Manor Trilogy, the Lynher Mill Chronicles, the Penhaligon Saga, and the Fox Bay Saga. She has co-written, as half of Clarke Nixon, 2 books in the Children of Sinai series, with Shelley Clarke.She also writes crime as R.D. Nixon, and is the author of Crossfire and Fair Game, the first two books in the Clifford-Mackenzie Crime series, set in a small community in the Scottish Highlands. Book 3, Bad Blood, is out Feb 2023
R. D. Nixon is the crime-writing side of author Terri Nixon, who has been publishing family sagas and mythic fantasy since 2013. All her sagas are pretty crimey, in fact, so it makes sense that her crime novels are in turn notable for their complex characters and relationships, and steeped in community values and the drama that goes with them. R.D. is based in Plymouth (England) and works in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business at the University of Plymouth. She has stolen her sons’ initials to form this pen-name, and neither of them has told her off yet, so she says she’ll carry on like that for a bit.
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