If the two lead characters in this book don’t end up in a TV series somebody is missing a trick
John Byron is a Senior Detective who is on long term sick leave. But that doesn’t stop his boss being in almost constant contact about an unofficial inquiry he’s carrying out.
He is attending the funeral of a Politician who was about to become a whistle blower. A man who was about to blow the lid on an elusive child abuse ring.
Blake was 15 when she disappeared, 10 years ago, just after her mother’s death. Since then her father has remarried and has step children, and has recently died in a car crash.
Nobody had seen or heard from Blake until the day of the funeral, when she accesses his house and personal files.
In fact nobody knows who she is, even when she just sits in the house and waits for the Police to find her.
The funeral is the same one Byron is attending. He is one of the first to attend the house and talk to Blake.
What follows is almost a dual inquiry. First the Police really need to establish if Blake is who she says she is, then he has she turned up now after so long.
Now Blake is doing her own investigation. She wants to know why she was given up for dead 10 years ago, and why nobody looked for a 15 year lad who just disappeared.
There are people in the town who need to worry.
What is Blake after, deadly revenge or justice.
This book has a fantastic story, and more than a bit of “will-they won’t-they” between Byron and Blake. In more than one way.
I loved the concept, I loved the characters, and thankfully there are those six words on the cover that have got me really excited.
“Blake and Byron Thrillers: Book One”
Publisher: Bookouture. Pages: 384. Available now
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