Jack Wood catches thieves.
Shoplifters, kleptomaniac aristocrats, employees skimming the till. If someone steals, Jack finds them.
Then a teenager walks into a Canterbury shop with a rented gun in her bag—one already used in multiple murders.
Overnight, Jack is pulled into a dark black-market trade. A wealthy client’s story doesn’t add up. A detective leaks classified details. And the trail points straight to a corrupt town hiding a nightmare.
Jack Wood is no hero. He might not even be one of the good guys.
Some cities keep their secrets buried. Jack digs them up. One grave at a time.
Pick up The River Murders to uncover Canterbury’s darkest secrets.
Colette Kebell is an author of Romcoms, Thrillers and a few Raunchies, and thus far
has self-published all of her books.
Her romcoms, due to a few lovely book bloggers, has been likened to a cross between Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic Series, Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Devil Wears Prada. Her romcoms are light-hearted, fun and quirky and even said to be, by a few that have read them, inspirational. She has also found avenues to translate them all into Italian (thanks to her husband), and most, thus far, into French, Spanish and Portuguese via Babelcube.
Add to the mix the odd Thriller, just to change things up a bit and the raunchies (published under a different name) and I guess that Colette is rather eclectic.
As a career, Colette spent her latter years as a legal secretary. After a first attempt at writing many years ago, a book that remains in her drawer, she resumed this passion a few years back, following
having been made redundant. A few book signing events and a book talk later, which almost caused her to collapse with nerves,
Colette now spends her time at her home in the UK, having sold their holiday home in France. Colette has won the odd award for her writing, but hasn’t made any best
seller lists yet.
Colette has two adorable dogs and spends some time, other than writing and marketing her books, cooking for herself and her husband, gardening or designing various items for their home. Amongst
her other hobbies, she has experimented with upholstery of furniture and she might, from time to time, have a paintbrush in her hand.
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My thoughts: Jack used to be a Marine and now he advises businesses on their security, trains security guards to catch thieves and does a bit of private investigating on the side.
But when a teenage girl walks into a department store with a gun, he finds himself drawn into a case mixing human trafficking and organised crime, one with far reaching tentacles and one which will test him to the limits. Jack isn’t afraid of breaking laws to get justice as he sees it.
But a relationship with one of the detectives involved in the case might not be the smartest move he’s made. He’s too close to the case and her boss might be an idiot but he knows Jack isn’t telling the truth about everything. Maybe it’s time for Jack to disappear.
Full of sudden twists and turns as Jack tries to unravel the connections between the girl now in a coma, the countess who shoplifts and the gangster who owns a quarry. He puts himself in harm’s way to help a complete stranger all because he knows there’s more to the case than it appears. An enjoyable, fast-paced read as Jack brings the secrets beneath Canterbury’s genteel exterior to light.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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