High Force: A DCI Ryan Mystery (The DCI Ryan Mysteries Book 5)

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None of these is a tourist guide to a regional beauty spot. No, LJ Ross writes racy crime thrillers and these locations are where her DCI Ryan exercises his murder detective’s skills. By frantically digging through Edward's past, they find he changed his name at aged 16. Why and who paid for him to go to boarding school. Tai jau penktoji knyga, kurioje yra pasakojama apie inspektoriaus Rajeno gyvenimą. Patinka man ši serija savo lengvu turiniu bei įtraukiančiu siužetu. That was the catalyst. She jotted down some ideas and later sent something off to agents and publishers. In May 2021, Louise was shortlisted for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association ‘Dagger in the Library’ award, which recognises an author’s entire body of work having been consistently enjoyed by library borrowers around the United Kingdom, and an author’s longstanding support of libraries.

Frank decides to investigate on his own and pounds down the doors of a business owned my one of the Moffa businessmen. He feels that they may know more than they are letting on.In 2021, Ross set up the Northern Photography Prize for images captured in the North East of England, [18] as well as reading and writing challenges and prizes for adults and children. [19] Novels [ edit ] DCI Ryan Mysteries Series [ edit ] Good story, action, a bit of scary blood and gore, and a couple of reveals at the end that give us some more insight into both Edwards and Ryan. Author notches up 100,000 book sales in just two years". Morpethherald.co.uk . Retrieved 2 February 2016. Thanks to the author's superb writing and excellent characterisation, this suspenseful book kept me on edge at all times. The murder scenes are quite gruesome and require a strong stomach. The author did a great job in portraying and building Denise's distress and hopelessness and the team's anguish and desperation in locating her before it's too late. Needless to say I highly recommend this book and the whole series. They're all gripping, suspenseful, well-written books.

There’s no spot in the North East so beautiful that you can’t make it a murder scene. That would appear to be the thinking of LJ Ross, an author who has burst like a comet onto the literary scene. In less than two years she has sold more than 500,000 ebooks meaning she has earned more from writing than she would have done in her job as a regulatory lawyer. To find out more about the many philanthropic ventures Louise has founded and sponsored through her publishing imprint, Dark Skies Publishing, please visit ‘Philanthropy’. At the end, following a breathtaking finale, the author leaves the reader with one or two questions in mind. Hmmm... will I find the answers in the next book? I'm dying with curiosity...

DCI Ryan Series

You won’t find LJ Ross titles in Waterstones although they are available in print on demand and Louise has an audiobook deal. Her first book was called Holy Island, her second was Sycamore Gap and her third was Heavenfield. The new one is Angel (the striking cover shows Anthony Gormley’s sculpture) and High Force is on the way.

Just then, the clouds shifted outside and the moon’s watery light shone through the tiny window onto the tall, menacing figure standing over her. She could see that he had changed his clothes, and they were covered in blood. Her eleventh novel, The Infirmary, is a prequel story to the DCI Ryan series and is available as a major Audible Originals audio-drama starring Tom Bateman, Kevin Whately, Bertie Carvel, Hermione Norris and Alun Armstrong.After the birth of her son, Ross wrote the first draft of Holy Island, having been inspired by the atmospheric beauty of Lindisfarne, an island off the northeast coast of England she knew well from childhood. [12] Following its success, she now writes full-time. The second book in her series of DCI Ryan novels, Sycamore Gap, is set in Hadrian's Wall country [13] [14] and subsequent DCI Ryan novels continue the Northumbrian locations, with stories set in Northumberland, County Durham and Newcastle. There was no sex in this book but the romantic feelings between Ryan and Anna was so sweet. And the F-bomb was used 2 times.