Alison Belsham

Teenage deaths!

Complex police procedural. Three teenagers have committed suicide. Detective Inspector Lexie Bennett is not convinced. Is someone manipulating/assisting desperate young people to take their own lives?
Lexie is caught up in the chase that leads from a girl who falls or jumps from a tower to the Dark Web. Three suicides and three notes. No phones! It becomes a race against time to identify the protagonist. The search comes too close to home and very personal for Lexie
A page turner!

A Bookouture ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher.… (meer)

Two identical girls are found dead, next to each, both of their throat cuts. They are part of a set of triplets, raising the question - where is the missing sister, Paige? Is she also dead, or could she still be alive?

The detective assigned to the case, Lexi, is actually part of a set of triplets herself. Years ago she and her sisters were abducted, and so she is personally invested in finding Paige and bringing the killer to justice.

This was a really good police procedural and thriller. I really enjoyed the killer's POV, and he was very creepy (but the writing was well done). This was great to listen to.

Thank you Bookouture Audio and netgalley for giving me an advanced review copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.… (meer)

Un cuerpo desollado en un contenedor de Brighton es una mala noticia. Pero también la oportunidad perfecta para que un ambicioso policía recién ascendido pueda demostrar a sus superiores que la confianza que han depositado en él está justificada —y de paso cerrar la boca a su compañero, con más años de servicio y resentido por no haber sido promocionado para el puesto—. Así que el inspector Francis Sullivan necesita a toda costa resolver el crimen, obra de uno de los más salvajes y retorcidos asesinos en serie de la historia del país. Como descubrirá enseguida, la pieza clave tiene nombre y apellido, Marni Mullins, la tatuadora que encontró el cadáver y que lo sabe absolutamente todo sobre la extraña alquimia de la sangre y la tinta. Pero Marni tiene un tormentoso pasado y motivos de sobra para desconfiar de la justicia...… (meer)

law-enforcement, action-adventure, Afghanistan, adversity, ex-cop, ex-military, journalist, antiquities-trade, murder-investigation, theft, thriller, mercenaries*****

Former Met homicide cop in London Mac is now working with a mercenary company in Afghanistan when he gets tagged to work with Kabul police to investigate the murder of a British man in uniform. Things in Kabul are worlds different from the tidy compartmentalized workings of Scotland Yard and it gets positively insane when the British army gets involved and tries to take over. But it's not their jurisdiction. And Mac is only there to assist.
Baz Khan is an investigative journalist whose father had been curator of the Kabul Museum which has been bleeding artifacts in recent times. Her work is more than difficult because she was born in the US but has to conform to Afghani norms in public.
Mac and friends cross paths with Baz when it turns out that the murder victim was in the antiquities trade! Great realistic characters and likely events.
Fast paced thriller set in a world apart. Loved it!
I requested and received a free e-book copy from Canelo via NetGalley. Thank you!… (meer)