At 10:55 pm last night, I wrote about a new book I was reading, ‘Deceived by the Light’, the latest from Damien Boyd – and the first of a new series:
I’m only a few chapters in but completely gripped. It has a very different tone from Damien’s previous series, and Bob Willis is a very different character. The previous series is set in the present, the new series is set in the 1980’s which makes it interesting in a different way as the investigations are conducted without the modern technology we take for granted.
At 3:05 this morning I had to shut the book and get some sleep. I was meeting friends for breakfast, and then had some other things I to do, but as soon as I was home I plunged back into the gripping mystery. I didn’t stop, except to slurp my tea, until at last – phew! I was finished, and closed the book.
Gosh, what a story!! I felt exhausted and amazed at what a really brilliant and gripping read it was. So clever, so interesting, so riveting, such an unexpected chain of events. I’d found myself almost holding my breath, then looking up, taking a few gasps of air, thinking ‘gosh, Damien, you are such clever, clever, writer, what an imagination you have, what a mind to weave this complicated series of events into something so surprising and unexpected!’ and then diving back into the action.
I shared my thoughts last night, but in case you missed it, here’s the blurb:
It is 1985. Detective Inspector Mungo ‘Bob’ Willis is being forced out of Avon and Somerset Police on medical grounds. His career is in tatters, his body broken, his mind shattered, and his partner—DS Lizzie Harper—dead in a sting operation gone wrong.
Their last case is closed, but Bob is convinced an innocent man has been framed, leaving a serial killer cruising the A303 with impunity, free to target lone women who have broken down by the roadside late at night. The killer knows the police aren’t looking for anyone else in connection with the murders. What they don’t know is what Bob will do next.
And when another woman is killed in horrifyingly similar circumstances, Bob launches his own—unofficial—investigation. Can he stop a sadistic killer before they kill again? And again…
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deceived-Light-1-Bob-Willis/dp/1662524706/ref=asc_df_1662524706
Lois Elsden 