DI Tessa Burns Book 1
They came in the dark. They took her parents. And now she is the only one who can save them.
Hidden away in an isolated cabin on the edge of her farm, seven-year-old Aisling Connolly shivers as the cold night air whistles through her thin jacket. It’s been two days since the men came, since her mammy told her to run like she’d never run before, to not look back. She hasn’t seen her parents since. And she’s terrified.
But when Aisling is finally found by the police, she knows instinctively she can trust Detective Tessa Burns. A former child-witness herself, Tessa understands what Aisling has been through, and that Aisling must remember everything she can about that terrible, dark night if she’s to save her parents. Something Tessa was unable to do for her own parents all those years ago.
As the little girl slowly starts to open up, Tessa uncovers much more than she’d bargained for – another murder, clearly a horrific warning to Aisling not to speak. But time is running out, and any hope of finding Aisling’s parents alive is rapidly fading. And Tessa must do everything in her power to ensure the little girl isn’t next…
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Review
I love it when a detective and her team are not the usual kind of team you would expect in the police force. Detective Tessa is one who does not shy away from danger. When she goes for it, she goes for it. It sometimes feels a bit like a case of diving in and thinking later but she certainly achieves the goals she has set for herself.
After that one case where she went for it like a true hero she recognizes where her forte lies. And she is going to make certain she is the right woman for the job. She asked for one thing, which she received, and she chooses the team she wants to work with. I can assure you this team is one-of-a-kind, but it is not possible to not love them.
The first case together it’s not an easy one and they find themselves more than once, eye to eye with one or more villains.
Tessa is the boss, but she wants to be a boss who wants to work alongside her team. She wants them to see her as a companion although she still holds the reins. She knows how she wants to lead her team and when needed she shows a very compassionate side.
So yes, this is a very promising start do a new series and I am happy I can start reading part two straight away.
This book is very suspenseful but also emotional and very compassionate and human. The author has created some great characters and reminds us that criminals use every means to try to get what they want most, which is power and money of course.
Five stars for this remarkable story.
Thank you
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About the author
Shane Dunphy (S. A. Dunphy) was born in Brighton in 1973, but grew up in Ireland, where he has lived and worked for most of his life. A child protection worker for fifteen years, he is the bestselling author of seventeen books, including the number one Irish bestseller Wednesday’s Child and the Sunday Times Bestseller The Girl Who Couldn’t Smile. His bestselling series of crime novels (written under the name S. A. Dunphy) feature the criminologist David Dunnigan. Stories From the Margins, his new series of true crime books written for Audible, has been critically acclaimed and the second title in the series, The Bad Place, is an Audible True Crime bestseller.
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