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Today is my stop on the blog tour for Chloe: Never Forget. Check out my review and let me know what you think in the comments!
An off-duty detective gunned down. A dead woman. A student missing, feared dead. And now, a former policeman in search of his past. All these people, dead or alive, have one thing in common. D.I. Carl Sant must discover what it is.
A series of cold-case enquiries leads D.I. Sant and his colleagues to investigate a botched assassination plot dating back to the 1980s. The deeper they dig into the case, the more secrets are revealed, including shocking connections to the infamous National Front.
Meanwhile, the memory of former P.C. Tanner, survivor of the assassination horror, is beginning to recover. Sant must find Tanner, and find out who is behind it all – before his superiors lose their rag and more lives are lost.
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Review:
I was looking forward to picking up Chloe: Never Forget, as soon as I put the first book down. Dan Laughey has written a really fantastic duo of crime fiction, and I am very impressed.
This book picks up right where the first left off. I absolutely love how twisted of a ride this book is. Carl Sant is mid-investigation of these cold cases, and where it all leads was perfectly put together. I couldn’t put this down because I needed to know how it ended.
Like the first book, this is a bit slower, but again, the characters are fantastically written. I love when characters continue to grow in second books instead of tapering off.
These books should be read in order to get the full impact of the stories. Twists and turns around every corner, fantastic characters – I highly recommend checking this one out!
Rating:
4/5☆
Dan Laughey is a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University where he teaches a course called ‘Youth, Crime and Culture’ among other things. He has written several books on the subject including Music and Youth Culture, based on his PhD in Sociology at Salford University. He also holds a BA in English from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in Communications Studies from the University of Leeds.
Dan was born in Otley and bred in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, a hop and a skip away from the Leeds setting of his Chloe novels.
His crime writing was purely academic to begin with. He’s written about media violence and tackled the age-old concern about television and video games influencing patterns of antisocial behaviour in society. After years of research and theoretical scrutiny, he still hasn’t cracked that particular nut.
He’s also written about the role of CCTV and surveillance in today’s Big Brother world, the sometimes fraught relationship between rap and juvenile crime, football hooliganism, and the sociocultural legacy of Britain’s most notorious serial killer – the Yorkshire Ripper.
All in all, Dan’s work has been translated into four languages: French, Hebrew, Korean and Turkish. He has presented guest lectures at international conferences and appeared on BBC Radio and ITV News in addition to providing expert commentary for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.
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