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Dead Guilty
Paperback
Series: Calladine & Bayliss Crime Thrillers, Book 9
ISBN13: 9781805730354
Publisher: Joffe Books Ltd
Published: Feb 27 2025
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Detectives Calladine and Bayliss hunt for a missing child in a mystery with a shocking ending.
Sophie Alder is the three-year-old daughter of local factory owner, Richard Alder. Richard and his wife Annie are locals from the rough housing estate who've made it big.
Plus, there's a crime wave in Leesworth and the police can't cope. One thief even dares to break into Calladine's house.
A number of local men have formed a vigilante group. On one of their patrols they catch the burglar and he ends up dead.
The investigation is complicated and the detectives keep hearing about a shadowy figure called 'Street, ' the mastermind behind the increase in drugs and theft.
With two more murders and Calladine's personal life in turmoil, the detectives race to find 'Street' and the missing child.
If you like Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean, J.D. Kirk, Ian Rankin or Rachel Abbott, you'll love this bestselling crime fiction writer.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT DEAD GUILTY:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'WOW what an awesome read!' Addicted to Books
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'If you love crime thrillers with a twist you will love this series of books from Helen Durrant.' KT
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Hits the ground running and doesn't stop until the very end. Full of twists and turns Dead Guilty is a brilliant read.' Tracey
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A fantastic fiction writer whose storytelling has you so gripped it's impossible to put down.' Mrs S.A. Smith
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Brilliant storylines, brilliant characters.' Amazon customer
MEET THE DETECTIVES
Tom Calladine is a single, fifty-one-year-old detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life, however, is not so successful. Having been married and divorced before the age of twenty-one has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape.
Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-thirties, plain-speaking and loyal. She wishes she had more time for the gym and a love life. She uses her demanding workload as an excuse not to try too hard with the men she meets.
THE SETTING
The series is set in the fictional village of Leesdon on the outskirts of an industrial northern English city. There is little work and a lot of crime. The bane of Calladine's life is the Hobfield housing estate, breeding ground to all that is wrong with the area that he calls home.
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