What Doesn’t Break Us by Helen Sedgwick

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Over the past few months I have share with you The Burrowhead Mysteries, written by Helen Sedgwick. The series is set in a faraway Scottish town a paranormal past. What Doesn’t Break Us is the third and final book in the series. Some series can be read as standalones but this series is on you want to read in order as each book builds on the prior one. You can catch the end of series on July 8th in the UK. The audiobook is available in the US in August. If you want a refresher on the series check out my prior posts.


 About the book:

Take a sip and enter the world of the dead... 

As the station prepares to close down for good, DI Georgie Strachan is running out of time to find out what is really going on in Burrowhead and put a stop to it. A deadly drug appears in the small Scottish village, best consumed with the blood of a freshly slaughtered animal. But what does this have to do with the deaths and suicides? And who is responsible for supplying it?

As rituals and threats reach a frantic high, no one wants to speak. It seems the drug is ingrained in the very fabric of the village. Suspects abound as Georgie questions who she can really trust.


Review:

I am a huge fan of crime thrillers so this series is perfect for me. The little extra is the paranormal aspect. I cannot describe Helen’s writing any better than she does on her website, “I’m a multi-genre author of literary fiction, science fiction and crime. I write about human connection across time and space, juxtaposing science with the supernatural and realism with ghost story.”

This book starts a little different than the others with a listing of the characters and a brief review of the timelines. This was a good memory refresher. I loved getting lost in the book, which is easy to do with her writing style. The characters were familiar and I enjoyed wrapping up their stories. This series is one you will love from start to finish!


Author Bio
Helen Sedgwick lives in the Scottish Highlands and 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. Before she became an author, she was a research physicist with a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University and also as a bio-engineer. Helen is also a literary editor, founding Wildland Literary Editors. She was awarded the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship in 2021 for her next sci-fi series about four planets trying to rebuild after an environmental crisis.

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