DEAD SILENT a gripping detective thriller full of suspense (Calladine & Bayliss Mystery Book 2)

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I read the first book in this series a few months ago and liked DI Tom Calladine so I was looking forward to this second book. In the first book, Tom had a lot of problems. Most have not resolved in this book, but that's what makes him interesting. His love life hasn't changed, his boss is still a poor manager, and his mother has recently died.

Whoever is doing this is putting more emphasis on how they can find the house that works best for them. It appears a reliable theory that he wants some place that he is not going to have any interruptions while he does his work. Alice knows this case is a poisoned chalice. Not least because she has a new team to contend with — who don’t like being bossed around by a woman. DCI Rachel King. Mother of two teenage daughters and a toddler son. Divorced from Alan. She lives in the Cheshire village of Poynton — about ten miles from central Manchester. She is good at her job, gets results but can occasionally make mistakes. One of them was getting involved with a budding villain in her teens. A decision which continues to haunt her.Dead Silent is the second novel in the Calladine and Bayliss series and is a very pleasant read. The detectives are hunting a serial killer, a missing child and trying to sort out their chaotic personal lives, where it's the old cliche of the job getting in the way of romance. The plot is fairly standard with the reader getting an insight into the killer's motivations the police don't have and Tom Calladine making intuitive leaps to move the investigation forward. Normally I don't go for this as I like to follow the investigation through the facts to its logical conclusion but it works well in Dead Silent so hats off to Ms Durrant for pulling it off. Wow . . . this will keep you on the edge of your seat. Brilliant story from this author.’ Booklover Bev

One of the stars of the series is Ruth Bayliss, who is in her mid-thirties, and loyal yet a plain-speaker. One of her wishes is that she had more time to hit the gym and a love for life. She uses the demanding workload as her excuse for not trying too hard with the guys she meets. I have liked Calladine through all four books. His internal thoughts don't always match his spoken words. He seems bumbling sometimes, but he's really not. It really did keep you trying to figuring out who the killer was. I was still trying to figure it out very late in the book, and I like that. Knowing who the killer is right off the bat is not for me, and I would never have guessed who the killer was.The story follows an investigation into what is perceived to be a serial murder. Both victims are young thugs/criminals who spend their time on a low income housing estate selling drugs and worse. The Hobfield estate holds out little optimism for the youth who live there. They all seem sullen and antagonistic towards police. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean, Kimberley Chambers, Damien Boyd, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney, D.S. Butler or Mark Billingham. Dead Silent” is the second book of a new series of detective thrillers featuring D.S. Ruth Bayliss and D.I. Tom Calladine. I started this immediately after finishing the first book which was called 'Dead Wrong”. In this second book, Calladine faces personal tragedy and startling revelations, and Ruth’s relationship with Jake Ireson develops. She likes to set many of her stories in an area that she has resided in for years. It’s located between 2 counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The beautiful English spot is between the hills and the city and gives locals the chance to enjoy a mixture of the country side and the industrial aspects of an area and all of the character that these settings generate.

Whilst all this is going on his personal life is still a mess and he gains an unexpected relative or two. His so called cousin is awaiting trial for all his viscous crimes and one by one he is having the witnesses taken out of the equation, one of those on the list is Callandine!!! DCI Alice Rossi of Greater Manchester’s Serious Crime Squad has served with the police for the past twenty-nine years. Since the death of her husband, Paul, six years ago, she has lived alone in a large, three-storey Edwardian terrace on the outskirts of Manchester. Her grown-up son lives in Edinburgh with his family. Alice is about to retire — but she’s not looking forward to it. Since her husband died, work has been her mainstay, not because she misses Paul — he was a bad man — but because it keeps her dark thoughts at bay.Author Helen H. Durrant writes the “Calladine and Bayliss” series of mystery novels. The series began publication when “Dead Wrong” was released in the year 2015.