#BlogTour-‘Where The Dead Fall’ by M.J Lee

About the book….

One chance encounter, one street side murder, will change everything… The extraordinary new Ridpath crime thriller
Manchester has been at peace for twenty years. Not any more.

DI Ridpath is in the process of getting his life back together when everything goes wrong.

Driving to meet his daughter, he his caught in a horrific motorway accident, in which a near-naked man is rundown by a lorry, while fleeing from a lone gunman. As Ridpath closes Manchester’s road network in search of the assailant, one question remains: why did nobody else see him?

Ridpath’s investigations, which at first seem to follow protocol, soon unearth a number of inconsistencies, which pulls the police force itself into question, and hint at something sinister to come…

For Manchester is on the brink of a fresh surge of violence unlike anything it has seen in decades. As Ridpath battles this unprecedented conflict, he must battle his own demons. One thing is for sure. There will be blood on the streets…

Huge thanks to Tracy Fenton,MJ Lee and the publishers for having me in the blogtour…what a ride!

This is the second in the DI Ridpath investigations,however,it is straight forward to read as a standalone novel.

There are allusions to its predecessor because the after effects of The Beast Of Manchester case are being felt in ‘Where The Dead Fall’.

A shocking opener of a man coming to, to find he has been tied up and locked inside a type of cage is swiftly followed by a hair raising scene where the reader is introduced to DI Ridpath.

A man dashes out from the side of a motorway, with blue angel wings tattoed on his chest, barely missing a collision with Ridpath before throwing himself under a truck.

Closing down the motorway, earning the wrath of the Mayor, the police Commisioner and most of Machester, Ridpath is sure he has seen an armed man in the woods from where his naked victim had emerged.

Ridpath’s first case back following his cancer remission does not look to be off to the best of starts…

A cracking police procedural with a distintcly Northern tone, this has enough twists and turns to keep any mystery fan on their toes as the bodies pile up whilst the motivations of the killers seem increasigly elusive !

About the author…

Martin has spent most of his adult life writing in one form or another. As a University researcher in history, he wrote pages of notes on reams of obscure topics. As a social worker with Vietnamese refugees, he wrote memoranda. And, as the creative director of an advertising agency, he has written print and press ads, tv commercials, short films and innumerable backs of cornflake packets and hotel websites.
He has spent 25 years of his life working outside the North of England. In London, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok and Shanghai, winning awards from Cannes, One Show, D&AD, New York and London Festivals, and the United Nations.
Whilst working in Shanghai, he loved walking through the old quarter of that amazing city, developing the idea behind a series of crime novels featuring Inspector Pyotr Danilov, set in 1920s and 30s.
When he’s not writing, he splits his time between the UK and Asia, taking pleasure in playing with his daughter, practicing downhill ironing, single-handedly solving the problem of the French wine lake and wishing he were George Clooney.

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