First off I’d like to thank Rebecca Bradley for sending me a copy of her latest DI Hannah Robbins novel – A Deeper Song. Second I need to apologise that it’s taken me so long to read and review! Before I share my thoughts, here’s the blurb.

 

The Blurb

How do you fight someone you can’t see?

Detective Inspector Hannah Robbins finds herself on the most perilous case of her career when a young man darts in front of her car. He’s covered in someone else’s blood and has no memory of how he got there.

Digging up the man’s past puts Hannah on a collision course with a dangerous stranger who wants history to remain hidden and who will stop at nothing to keep his secret.

Hannah finds herself in the biggest fight of her life.

Is this finally a case too far?

 

 

My Review

I really like this series not least because it’s written by a former police officer. There’s attention to detail without it being laborious and I always learn something new. This time it’s the reason why clothes go in a paper evidence bag and not a plastic one. Fabric in a sealed plastic bag can sweat and corrupt the evidence. But let’s talk about the actual story.

When Hannah accidentally hits a young man who runs out in front of her car, it sets off a chain of events that will place her in danger. It’s a case that will stretch Hannah and her team to breaking point. Along with that, Hannah has to address the subject of her estranged sister.

During this lockdown period, I’ve not found it easy to read. However as I’ve read most of the DI Robbins series, I know the characters well and it’s been easy to slip back into their world. Hannah has faced a number of different challenging cases but this is the most precarious one yet. I don’t want to give too much away but this book kept me reading into the night, something I’ve not done for a while.

Rebecca Bradley’s writing style makes this so easy to read. As I’ve already said, I learn vital things about police procedure from Rebecca’s novels but it’s never an info dump. The procedure is weaved seamlessly into the story so it continuously flows. A Deeper Song had me gripped from the beginning to the end. I hope Rebecca Bradley has more cases for Hannah and her team to solve.

You can buy A Deeper Song here.

 

The Author

Rebecca Bradley is a retired police detective. She lives in the UK with her family and her two cockapoo’s Alfie and Lola, who keep her company while she writes. Rebecca needs to drink copious amounts of tea to function throughout the day and if she could, she would survive on a diet of tea and cake while committing murder on a regular basis, in her writing of course.

She writes the DI Hannah Robbins police procedural series and has also released two standalone novels, Dead Blind, about a cop who acquires prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness and Perfect Murder about a crime writer who wonders if she could commit the perfect murder so sets out to see.

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