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BAD PRESS AND BLOOD MONEY – BOOKS FIVE AND SIX
BAD PRESS
A serial killer's targeting Birmingham's paedophiles, and crime reporter Matt Snow always gets there first - ahead of the pack and the police. Is the murderer tipping him off? Snow isn't revealing his source - not when it's a story to die for. But is the reporter breaking the news - or making it?
Through it all, Bev has an exclusive of her own...a news item she'd rather didn't get round the nick. The guv knows, but he's on sick leave. Should she let DC Mac Tyler in on the secret - or keep mum...?
BAD PRESS was published to critical acclaim in August 2008.
Maureen Carter is a writer of real class and if you haven't read this series you've got a treat to come. If there was any justice in this world, she'd be as famous as Ian Rankin.
Sharon Wheeler, Reviewing the Evidence.
BAD PRESS is written in a no-nonsense pared down style which combined with an action filled plot leaves the reader gasping for breath and turning the pages...Though it's a grim story-line, there is also plenty of humour in the exchanges between Bev and her colleagues.
Karen Meek, Eurocrime.
Carter has mastered the art of the crime thriller to ensure a page turner which will catch you out no matter how hard you try to second guess her.
Diane Parkes, Birmingham Mail.
As always, Ms Carter's writing is forceful and incisive...The plot unfolds with consummate skill, and the pace doesn't hesitate for so much as a paragraph. The final denoument is startling. Readers coming to this book first, will find themselves compelled to go out to buy the earlier ones.
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BLOOD MONEY
In this the sixth book in the series, personal tragedy has pushed Bev close to self-destruct mode; both colleagues and friends have started to give her a wide berth.
But Bev is still a cop and there are villains to battle as well as personal demons.
Enter the Sandman, a vicious serial burglar who wears a clown mask and plays mind games with his victims...
The woman is a bad sleeper at the best of times. Now it is the dead of night.
She’s drifting off when she’s convinced she hears a faint sound on the
landing. Her scalp crawls as she shoots upright, trying to identify the noise.
After thirty, forty seconds hearing only her heartbeat, she sinks back under the
duvet, chides herself. Without Rod’s reassuring presence, it’s easy to let the
mind play tricks. She hates being a widow, vows to stop watching the news,
reading the papers, always full of scare stories.
Then the door inches open…
What the critics say…
Carter has perfected the art of the cliffhanger which makes it difficult to put this book down…her quick moving and short chapters invite you to read ‘just another one’ before turning out the light.
Diane Parkes, Birmingham Mail.
Carter excels at the genre of story that lets us into the private, and often messy, lives of the police officers trying to solve murders and other crimes…Bev Morriss is a strong character inhabiting an energetic and compelling series….’
Ian Morson, Tangled Web website.
Maureen Carter’s Bev Morriss series is one of my favourites. There’s a tough and mouthy lead character, a believable supporting cast, snappy dialogue and it’s set in the UK’s much-maligned second city of Birmingham. What’s not to like…BLOOD MONEY is dark, angsty and another strong addition to a superlative series.
Sharon Wheeler, Reviewing the Evidence.
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