#BlogTour-‘Death Comes To Call’ by Clare Chase

Welcome to my turn on the Bookouture blog tour for ‘Death Comes To Call’ by Clare Chase which is available now in paperback or EBook format(links to buy below).

About the book…

  Frost sparkles on the bare winter branches, as night falls over the quiet country lanes bordering the fens. But nestled beneath an ivy-covered bough, a body lies pale in the bright moonlight…

When a promising local artist disappears, the victim’s brother begs Detective Tara Thorpe to take the case. It seems there’s no evidence of foul play… he simply disappeared without a trace.

Tara agrees to do some digging… never mind that her unorthodox approach to policing has got a few of her colleagues’ backs up. Amongst them is her former supervisor Detective Patrick Wilkins… he’s had enough of Tara calling the shots and will do anything to knock her down. She must be careful.

At least she has an ally in their boss, Detective Garstin Blake. He’ll always back her hunches. If anything, they work together too well… at least, that’s the rumour around the station these days.

When a body of a young woman is found frozen near the fens, Tara’s evidence suddenly becomes key to solving a high-profile murder. Is their missing artist still a victim… or in fact a clever murderer with a deadly plan?

An unputdownable page-turner that will keep you hooked until the very last page!

Link to buy-https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Comes-Call-absolutely-unputdownable-ebook/dp/B07KSCRW55/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

What I thought-

Where has Tara been all my reading life?! This is book 3 in the series featuring her investigations and I am now adding Boks 1 and 2 to my ever increasing list of authors I have ‘found’ courtesy of wonderful blog tours (I say found as I am preety sure they were all existing before I read their books!).

Anyway that is enough wittering from me, Tara is a relatively new police officer who is already responsible for her senior officer’s suspension and seems to have difficulties drawing lines under her previous career as a journalist. Her intuition and hunches are , to me, an added bonus to her professional role however, her superiors and team members seem to find her poking her nose into things quite exhausting.

This is a perfect winter mystery and I absolutely loved the Cambridge setting-it’s not a place I am familiar with but Clare describes it perfectly and you definitely feel the place come alive as she describes it.

Another thing that I loved about the book was the female perspective-Tara and her chief officer and pathologist are women but they are doing their jobs, they are consummate professionals in  a profession that is traditionally patriarchal. They stand up for themselves and take no nonsense.

It’s an incredibly atmospheric story wherein Matthew Cope has called the police regarding his missing brother, Luke, an artist. His relationship with a married woman has broken down, he has a problem with drink and his latest piece of painting is a nude woman being strangled..a woman who resembles his girlfriend who has also gone missing…

This is a really twisty, turning novel with great characters and a plot that has you turning the pages so quickly that you don’t even realise your finger has gone numb pressing the forward arrow on your Kindle!
Thoroughly recommended!

About the author…

Clare Chase writes women sleuth mysteries and recently signed a three-book deal with Bookouture for a new crime series set in Cambridge. The opening book, Murder on the Marshes, is available for pre-order and will publish in July 2018. The mystery follows investigative journalist Tara Thorpe as she teams up with Detective Garstin Blake to solve the murder of a young female professor at Cambridge University. The case takes them through the dark underbelly of Cambridge and in to the murky fens that surround the centuries-old city. The second and third books in the series are scheduled for publication in late 2018/early 2019.

After graduating from London University with a degree in English Literature, Clare moved to Cambridge and has lived there ever since. She’s fascinated by the city’s contrasts and contradictions, which feed into her writing. She’s worked in diverse settings – from the 800-year-old University to one of the local prisons – and lived everywhere from the house of a Lord to a slug-infested flat. The terrace she now occupies, with her husband and teenage children, presents a good happy medium.

As well as writing, Clare loves family time, art and architecture, cooking, and of course, reading other people’s books.

Clare’s debut novel, ‘You Think You Know Me’, was shortlisted for the Novelicious Undiscovered Award 2012, and an EPIC award in 2015. It was also chosen as a debut of the month by Lovereading.

You can find Clare’s website and blog at www.clarechase.com

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