Today I'm thrilled to be taking part in the Sweet After Death blog tour, the fourth book in the Alice Madison series.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In the dead of winter Homicide Detective Alice Madison is sent to the remote town of Ludlow, Washington, to investigate an unspeakable crime.
Together with her partner Detective Sergeant Kevin Brown and crime scene investigator Amy Sorensen, Madison must first understand the killer's motives...but the dark mountains that surround Ludlow know how to keep their secrets and that the human heart is wilder than any beasts.
As the killer strikes again Madison and her team are under siege. And as they become targets Madison realises that in the freezing woods around the pretty town a cunning evil has been waiting for her.
MY THOUGHTS
Sweet After Death is
the fourth book in the Alice Madison series by Valentina Giambanco. It is a
heart stopping crime novel that will have you hooked from the first page. A
thoroughly enjoyable read which I highly recommend, I will definitely be going
back to read the previous books in the series.
In the latest
installment in the series, Madison and her colleagues, Detective Sergeant Kevin
Brown and crime scene investigator Amy Sorensen are called to help out in an
investigation into a crime which took place in the small town of Ludlow near
the Canadian border. Ludlow is a seemingly peaceful town with little more than
a few hundred residents. It is a close knit community where everyone knows
everyone and everyone knows everything about what people get up to. When the local doctor is found dead in his
car, the shocking discovery leaves the town reeling. How could such a thing happen here? Madison would like to
think that this is just a one off, isolated incident but soon the town realises
that the events which started with the doctor’s death is just the beginning.
I loved the setting of
the small town in this book. Valentina creates a mysterious, creepy atmosphere
and I could picture the mountains and the forests surrounding the town very
clearly. I really engaged with Madison’s character in this book. We learn a lot
about Madison in Sweet After Death, particularly about her childhood. I found
all of the characters in this book really engaging, one character in
particular, Samuel, Valentina made me care about him and I wanted to know what
would become of him and his family.
I was intrigued to
see how the team dynamics would play out once Madison and her team arrived in
Ludlow. I’ve heard it said before that police forces typically like working on
their own in an investigation and do not like having to go to outsiders to help.
It made me wonder if there would be any animosity between Madison’s team and
the police department at Ludlow.
Valentina has created
an intriguing mystery in her latest book. The close knit town of Ludlow has to
come to terms with what has happened in their supposedly safe neighbourhood.
The one fact that is on everyone’s mind is that the killer could be one of
them. Who do you know who to trust?
A terrific book, thank
you to Alainna Georgiou at Quercus for providing me with a copy to read and for
organising the blog tour.
Publisher: Quercus
Publication date: 15th June 2017
Print length: 496 pages
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