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The brutal and hideous crimes against the bodies of the two victims make Tom believe he is NOT dealing with the usual gang war. This is someone who takes a personal pleasure in meting out retribution. There are several seemingly unrelated crimes, and Calladine and his team are frustrated because they can't find evidence of any connections. Actually, they don't even have a body. Imogen and Rocco are more prominent because Bayliss is pregnant and ready to go on leave. There's a new DCI that's been assigned to Leesdon, and no one really trusts her, as it appears she's going to break up the team. Dead Silent by Helen Durrant is this month’s read over at the Kindle English Mystery Club on Goodreads. This is book 2 in the Calladine and Bayliss series. I have not read Book 1 so this is my introduction to the characters. The main protagonist of Calladine is a good character with conflicts occurring in his love life, in his relationship with his adult daughter, in the impact having a criminal relative is having on his career and in dealing with the death of his mother and her deathbed revelations. All this and a missing child and mysterious, horribly tortured body found at the scene of an auto accident. It’s a horrifying sight. The body of an elderly woman is carefully posed on the altar. There’s gaffer tape over her mouth, her hands are crossed over her chest, tied together with white ribbon. A single white rose is placed between her fingers. There are a couple other situations happening at the same time ... the death of Calladine's mother, an old girlfriend reappears, Bayliss is having her own problems...mostly person with a man she's been dating who is having a real hard time being delegated to third place, after her job and her stress-relieving bird watching.
Alice knows this case is a poisoned chalice. Not least because she has a new team to contend with — who don’t like being bossed around by a woman.Day 2. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Hewson is reported missing. She never came home from school, and her father is beside himself.
A case that was solved early in the book seemed to have little impact and no mention of repercussions, so why was it included? Was it simply to make the team appear overwhelmed with cases? DS Ruth Bayliss was as close as ever to Calladine, but they are just best friends. She seemed to be more of a sounding board and a conscience telling him what to do in his personal life. Bayliss also has her own personal issues. Both were a bit repetitive.In this instalment DI Tom Callandine and DS Ruth Bayliss have their work cut out. There is a group of homeless people who have set up camp on the land belonging to a local businessman Damien Chase. I would like to thank Netgalley and Joffe Books for allowing me an advance copy of Dead Lost, the latest addition to the Calladine and Bayliss series of police procedurals. Another great book from Helen Durrant. She has a lovely writing style that is easy to read making it quite a fast, pacy read that I couldn't put down. I'm not too sure about the characters, Calladine and Bayliss, as they seem to spend more time talking about their love lives than the investigation so, yes, I get it that a police career does not go well with a relationship and can we move on? None of the other characters are particularly well drawn but they don't need to be because this is a plot driven novel. Perhaps as an old middle aged man who craves female attention beyond my wife's love and daughters' appreciation I find Calladine a little grating as he seems always to attract women who want him while he seems disfunctional in his own understanding of how to keep a relationship working.
In DEAD LOST, Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss face one of their toughest challenges yet. A group of homeless people have set up camp in the grounds of a disused cotton mill belonging to local businessman Damien Chase. But one of the men is not what he seems. He has a secret he will do anything to cover up. And once Calladine and Bayliss investigate, they find the crimes go much further than they could have ever imagined. Will Ruth be able to juggle her personal and professional lives, and can Calladine deal with their new boss, a woman he neither trusts nor likes? Willing to do anything to bring terrible suffering to an end, Calladine make an astonishing move . . . Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean, Kimberley Chambers, Damien Boyd, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney, D.S. Butler or Mark Billingham.This is first in a series. The next one in line is DEAD SILENT. I think it's going to be a terrifically good series. Dead Wrong is the first in the Calladine and Bayliss series. I've had this book for some time and came across it whilst scrolling through on my Kindle. Sooo many books! *sigh* Once again Calladine and Bayliss are working together to discover the secrets held within the homeless camp and what, if any, connection is there to the old Chase Mill?
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