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"It's waiting in the dark. Whispering my name..."
Synopsis
A murder investigation unearths the brutal history of a village where long buried secrets threaten a small community.
When psychotherapist Alexis Cosse is found murdered in the playground of the sleepy northern village of Burrowhead, the local police force set out to investigate.
It’s not long before they uncover a maelstrom of racism, misogyny and homophobia. But there’s worse to come.
Shaken by the revelations and beginning to doubt her relationship with her husband Fergus, DI Georgie Strachan soon realizes that something very bad is lurking just below the surface.
Meanwhile someone - or something - is hiding in the strange, haunted cave beneath the cliffs.
When The Dead Come Calling is a tense, atmospheric thriller which grips to the very last page.
My Review
This review was not posted on the intended date due to technical issues on my end, For this I would just like to apologise to The Author, the Publisher and The Tour Organiser and thank them all for their understanding.
Where do I even start?
I thought in may ways this was going to be a standard police procedural solving a murder And, yes at it core this is what this read is based around.
But WOW! the style, the tone, the unique writing just immerses you until you are enveloped in to this world needing answers.
When a psychotherapist, Alexis Cosse, body is found murdered in a playground, DI Georgie Strachan, new to the town of Burrowhead, investigates the murder.
The characters in this story are diverse, interesting and show the true characteristics of village life with a strange charm and engagement that means that as a reader I became so invested in there complex lives with.
Burrowhead seem a place on paper that many would love to life yet there was a eerie chill around it an undertone of danger and evil along with the with the characters seemingly holding back secrets at every turn.
Especially as the village's and it's inhabitants darker sides are shown in abuse, racism, and elements of homophobia as this story roars to its conclusion..
This story is one of those to savour you want to read at speed to uncover the secrets and learn the truth but you also don't want it to end. It is a slow burn of a book, eerie and mysterious it pulls you and and leaves you thinking of it long after you have finished
Author Bio
HELEN SEDGWICK is the author of The Comet Seekers, selected as a best book of 2016 by the Herald, and The Growing Season, shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year in 2018.
She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award.
Before she became an author, she was a research physicist with a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University.
She now lives and writes in the Scottish Highlands.
http://www.helensedgwick.com/ @helensedgwick @PtBlankBks
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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.
All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.