Friday, 20 December 2019

~*BLOG TOUR*~ Death at Eden's End by Jo Allen

~*BLOG TOUR*~

Title: Death at Eden's End
Series: DCI Satterthwaite, #2
Author: Jo Allen
Genre: Myster / Crime Thriller
Pub. Date: December 12, 2019
Publisher: Aria
Hosted: Head of Zeus



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Blurb ↓
A brand new DCI Jude Satterthwaite crime mystery from the bestselling Jo Allen.

When one-hundred-year-old Violet Ross is found dead at Eden's End, a luxury care home hidden in a secluded nook of the Lake District's Eden Valley it's tragic, of course, but not unexpected. Except for the instantly recognisable look in her lifeless eyes... that of pure terror.
DCI Jude Satterthwaite heads up the investigation, but as the deaths start to mount up it's clear that he, and DS Ashleigh O'Halloran need to uncover a long-buried secret before the killer strikes again...

The second in the unmissable, Lake District-set, DCI Jude Satterthwaite series.





EXTRACT ↓
Ashleigh had been working with him for two months and Jude, his attention caught from the moment she walked in, still couldn’t rationalise his response to her. A strong – very strong – physical attraction undoubtedly dominated, but the irritation that came with it nagged at his better nature. Maybe, he thought as he watched her pick up her handbag and head out of the office at the end of the day, it was because he wasn’t comfortable with the challenge she presented. The problem wasn’t her – sexy, smart, and confident – but him, too damaged to cope with what she dared him to think. That was why he was always so short-tempered with her and why Doddsy, his close friend and colleague, had more than once had to badger him into apologising for his brusqueness.
Jude prided himself on being a good man-manager, and he thought most of his junior officers would have agreed with his assessment. That made his inability to treat Ashleigh with the same equanimity as the rest of them all the more galling, until he became angrier with himself and with everyone else on top of it. Taking a private phone call in work hours wasn’t so grievous a sin, yet he’d allowed himself to behave like the possessive husband who seemed to be giving her so much trouble.
And then there was Becca. He looked down at his phone, in further irritation. He’d have kept it switched off at work if he hadn’t been burdened with the responsibility of a trouble-prone younger brother, an emergency-in-waiting who was the one caller he daren’t ignore. Becca knew he never answered personal calls when he was on duty, and if he’d been tempted to break the rule just that one time – as far as he could recall, the only time she’d phoned him in the three years since they’d split – he couldn’t have done it after taking Ashleigh to task so publicly for the very same transgression. Yet Becca hadn’t just called him once, but twice, implying that it was important and so putting pressure on him to respond.
‘Are you ready to head home?’ Doddsy stopped at his desk on the way out, shrugging his dark woollen coat round him against the chill of early November. ‘I was going to suggest a pint.’
Jude considered. On another night he’d have been tempted, because when he was in this kind of mood Doddsy’s equable good humour and sense of proportion were the best balm for his irritable soul, but Becca’s messages proved a formidable obstacle. One would have been difficult enough to ignore, but two suggested there was something wrong. ‘I’ve got a couple of calls to make before I leave.’
‘Another time.’ Tucking the ends of his scarf into the collar of his overcoat, Doddsy moved to the door, looking every inch the traditional detective.
‘I’m free tomorrow night.’
‘Tomorrow, then.’ Doddsy closed the office door and Jude was left alone with the phone.


Author Bio ↓

Jo Allen was born in Wolverhampton and is a graduate of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and the Open University. After a career in economic consultancy she took up writing and was first published under the name Jennifer Young in genres of short stories, romance and romantic suspense. In 2017 she took the plunge and began writing the genre she most likes to read – crime. Now living in Edinburgh, she spends as much time as possible in the English Lakes. In common with all her favourite characters, she loves football (she’s a season ticket holder with her beloved Wolverhampton Wanderers) and cats.


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