Blog Tour: The Cow Shed – Emmy Ellis

Two women. Twenty years apart. One deadly link.

Twenty years ago, Effie vanished without a trace. She was last seen arguing with her cousin Shannon at the pub before storming home — except she never made it.
Suspicion fell on Shannon, but with no body and no evidence, she walked free and the case went cold.

Decades later, a young woman is found strangled in an allotment at the bottom of Shannon’s garden. And once again, Shannon finds herself at the centre of an intense police investigation.
Detective Anna James finds Shannon blunt to the point of rude, but without solid evidence, there’s nothing to hold her on.

With the investigation at a standstill, Anna turns to an unlikely source: her former lover, ex-crime boss Joshua ‘Parole’ Cribbins. He still has connections with the seedy underbelly of the town — and he’s all too willing to help. But getting close to Parole again could cost Anna everything.

Then, a breakthrough leads Anna to a place known as the Cow Shed. What she uncovers there will change everything — and expose the horrifying truth that’s been buried for decades.

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Emmy Ellis lives in Nottinghamshire with her husband and cat. She has five adult children. She loves reading and binge-watching anything to do with crime. She’s an introvert with an extrovert mask she puts on when the need arises. Described as quirky and clumsy, she loves nothing more than seeing people smile…or cringe while reading her novels.

My thoughts: The motive for these murders will make you gasp, it’s truly shocking. But no spoilers here.

After a gap of twenty years, the killer strikes again. After Effie disappeared, rumours swirled around Shannon (who I felt very sorry for) and now there’s a body in her garden, amongst the beetroot.

She’s an innocent victim, but the killer clearly knows her, why taunt her like that otherwise?

The police are stumped, there’s so little to go on. They’re pretty sure the two cases, despite the gap, are connected. But how? Then slowly a trickle of information about the past starts to reach them. And buried within it, the truth about why the killer has risen again after twenty years.

Chilling, compelling, shocking. And so, so good.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.