In case you weren’t around over the weekend, the second book in the Parks Pat Mysteries series, Long Climb to the Top, was just released. Get your copy of this gorgeous new series today and pick up a few other books with murders set in parks or natural settings!
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I don’t think I have featured any Joy Ellis books before, though I have read one or two others in the DI Nikki Galena Series. Of course, I have read them sporadically, out of order, instead of like a normal person who reads from 1-12. But you can read them as stand alone thrillers and still make sense of what is going on, though there are overarching plot and character arcs that carry over from one book to the next.
In Stalker on the Fens, Nikki Galena is approached by a friend who she had previously saved from a horrific building collapse. The woman thinks that she is being stalked, but her family and friends are apt to put it down as PTSD rather than something that is really happening to her. Bad turns to worse, and before long Galena is trying to deal with a couple of bodies and some significant unrest between two criminal factions. There are plenty of suspects, but trying to narrow it down and rule them out is not easy.
Well written, good characters that you want to spend more time with, and lots of twists and turns.
Helen shook her head. ‘I’ve never seen him close to. It’s more that I sense someone, rather than actually see him. He’s a shadowy figure that disappears when I try to look at him. It’s creepy, but I know he’s there.’
Joy Ellis, Stalker on the Fens
DI Nikki Galena’s close friend Helen Brook is involved in a serious accident where she is trapped in a collapsed cellar. After her hard-won recovery, Helen is still getting flashbacks to a man she says was down there with her and who confessed to a murder. But no trace of this man can be found.
Then Helen tells Nikki that someone is watching her. But is all this in her friend’s imagination and part of her post-traumatic stress?
And why is Stephen Cox back in town? He’s the villain who tore Nikki’s life apart and he seems to have returned to wreak more chaos. Before long the whole town is on the verge of hysteria and her friend’s fear will lead Nikki and Joseph on a very dangerous trail.
