When The Dead Come Calling by Helen Sedgwick

I’m so pleased to have a stop on Love Book Tour’s for the first book in a new series by Helen Sedgwick. The Burrowhead Mysteries consist of When The Dead Come Calling, Where The Missing Gather, and What Doesn't Break Us. The book published in June 2021, and has a 3.47 star rating on GoodReads and a 4 star rating on Amazon.com.

Blurb 

In the first of the Burrowhead Mysteries, an atmospheric murder investigation unearths the brutal history of a village where no one is innocent.

When psychotherapist Alexis Cosse is found murdered in the playground of the sleepy northern village of Burrowhead, DI Strachan and her team of local police investigate, exposing a maelstrom of racism, misogyny and homophobia simmering beneath the surface of the village.

Shaken by the revelations and beginning to doubt her relationship with her husband, DI Strachan discovers something lurking in the history of Burrowhead, while someone (or something) equally threatening is hiding in the strange and haunted cave beneath the cliffs...

Review
First I have to give special coverage to the cover. It is absolutely beautiful and makes you want to pick up the book. I love being able to start a book series at the beginning. I could tell by the cover that it would be a dark book and I was not wrong (I love when covers fit the book perfectly!) the setting is Scotland and I love reading Scottish crime novels because their police procedures are differ than in the US. This is a book you will enjoy if you love police procedure books!

Author Info
Helen Sedgwick is the author of The Comet Seekers and The Growing Season, which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year in 2018. The opener to her Burrowhead Mysteries crime trilogy, When the Dead Come Calling, was published in 2020, followed by Where the Missing Gather in 2021. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and has won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Before she became an author, she was a research physicist with a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University. She lives in the Scottish Highlands. 

Keep in touch on social media:

Instagram:  @helensedgwickauthor

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