Whatever It Takes by Heaton Wilson
Author Heaton Wilson’s second book featuring DCI Jane Birchfield is a thrilling novel. Whatever It Takes is a book that will draw you in and want to read the other books in the series. The first book, Every Reason, is out now and Wilson is currently working on a third book.
A little
bit about the book
DCI Jane Birchfield is facing a series of personal challenges: a rocky
relationship with her partner, her mum hardly talks to her; and her boss and
mentor is critically ill, which means she is having to cover his post as well
as her own. Then she has to take charge of the toughest of murder
investigations.
Jamie Castleton is found dead, seemingly frozen in position at a computer
in a grubby internet cafe in the Manchester suburb of Ashbridge. Enquiries
reveal he was a self-employed tech consultant and a computer expert, so what
was he doing in there?
The more Jane and her team dig under the surface, the more the evidence
points to one of Manchester's biggest companies, Greaves, and its super-wealthy
boss, Graeme Hargreaves. This leads Jane into a sordid underworld, and a
surprise twist in the investigation forces her to face up to an event in her
own past, that she has kept buried for 25 years.
Slowly, but surely, the net tightens around the suspects, but can she
stay objective, and can she keep herself, her team, and her relationship,
together, and bring the killer to justice? For Jane it has become a personal
crusade, but in this race against time there is far more at stake than she ever
imagined.
I’ve read several crime novels set in the UK over the past few months and love the differences between crime novels set in the US. This book is focused on the crime and finding out what’s behind the crime. The crime becomes so much more than it appears on the surface and I was intrigued to keep reading to find out more.
I found the characters to be very relatable, both in their work and their personal stories. I can tell this is part of a series because I can’t wait to hear more. At the same time I didn’t feel lost since I had not read the first book. The author did a great job of explaining everything.
Thank you to the publisher and Rachel’s
Random Resources for inviting me to participate in the blog tour for this book.
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