Death in the Mist
A drowned man. A missing teenager. A deadly secret.
When Emmy Leach discovers the body of a drug addict, wrapped in a tent and submerged in the icy waters of a Cumbrian tarn, she causes more than one problem for investigating officer DCI Jude Satterthwaite. Not only does the discovery revive his first, unsolved, case, but the case reveals Emmy’s complicated past and opens old wounds on the personal front, regarding Jude’s relationship with his colleague and former partner, Ashleigh O’Halloran.
As Jude and his team unpick an old story, it becomes increasingly clear that Emmy is in danger. What secrets are she and her controlling, coercive husband hiding, from the police and from each other? What connection does the dead man have with a recently-busted network of drug dealers? And, as the net closes in on the killer, can Jude and Ashleigh solve a murder — and prevent another?
A traditional British detective novel set in Cumbria.
Purchase Links
UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Mist-DCI-Satterthwaite-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B09KYJK6H9
US – https://www.amazon.com/Death-Mist-DCI-Satterthwaite-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B09KYJK6H9
My Review
Thanks to Jo for my copy of this book and to Rachel for organising this blog tour.
It’s Wednesday and this review is due to be published on Friday. I’ve been busy and to be honest I’m a bit burnt out, so today I decided I wasn’t talking to anyone, I was going to read. I started reading this a week ago, but being busy, didn’t get past page one before something came up. When I sat down this afternoon I started at the beginning and read right to the end. In about four hours. I don’t think I moved, other than to turn the page.
Jude and Ashleigh have finally got over themselves and started working together normally again, and this time they have two mysteries to solve. A teenager went missing fifteen years ago, and every year his parents, divorced, meet at his favourite spot and leave flowers for him. On this day, they find a body. Who is the dead man, and what has his death to do with their missing son? What follows is an investigation into jealousy, obsessive love, and drug crimes.
I couldn’t put this book down. I liked it. I read the previous book and getting to know the team a bit more was interesting, especially Jude and Ashleigh’s developing relationship, as they both navigate post-coupledom and working together, being friends who were once lovers. Their own personal difficulties are brought up in the case they investigate as they both see parallels within their own lives. The characters certainly make this an intriguing series, set in surprisingly dangerous small-town Cumbria.
Honestly thought it was the husband who killed the man in the pond, but I was really surprised by the real killer and the gardener’s involvement in it all. I guessed who the man in the pond was fairly quickly, but how he ended up there and why were a mystery to me. I liked being kept guessing.
I know the area around Penrith a little, so I felt like I was in familiar territory when the author described the scenery. Anyone who knows Cumbria would recognise the characteristics of the place, even if the village of ‘Blacksty’ is fictional.
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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