Friday, 2 November 2018

#BlogTour #Review Trophies by David Evans

Trophies by David Evans
Wakefield Series #1
First Published 15 May 2012
Genre: Crime/Police Procedural


If you are looking for a new crime fighting team to grab your attention, you won't go far wrong with David Evans' Wakefield series.

Book Description:

From the CWA Debut Dagger Shortlisted Novelist comes an extraordinary crime novel that everyone is raving about.
When DI Colin Strong interviews a suspect on suspicion of handling stolen goods he’s convinced he’s heard their voice before. Nearly 25 years ago the tape of Wearside Jack taunted West Yorkshire Police and his suspect fits the profile.
Then the body of a known burglar shows up and a mysterious metal case is discovered at the scene.
Strong turns to his close friend, journalist Bob Souter, and embarks on an awkward alliance to probe areas he is unable to explore.
As the murder suspects start to disappear Strong must discover just who the shadowy figure inciting fear and panic amongst those he encounters is.
Strong wants to bring a murderer to justice and Souter is hungry for a story.
Who will get to the truth first and can their friendship remain intact?

Get Your Copy Here: http://getbook.at/Trophies 



The Wakefield Series:
#1 Trophies
#2 Torment
#3 Talisman
#4 Tainted – coming 2019

My Review:


Knowing that this novel was written with the real events of the horrific Yorkshire Ripper case in mind, I was interested to read how the author was going to blend fact with fiction in a convincing manner.  In my opinion his brave decision to do so has paid off brilliantly. Anyone who watched TV news reports and read the newspapers at the time will remember how one phone call put detectives off the trail with tragic results. Using the concept of voice recognition as a basis to his novel, David Evans has written an excellent first instalment in the detective series based around DI Colin Strong and his team.
I had the feeling of being a secret spectator to the happenings in the first chapter - maybe from a limited viewpoint but all the time knowing that things weren't going to end well for one of the people present.  This limited knowledge had me wanting to know the full facts of who these people were and why they had ended up the way they had.
One aspect of this book that I did struggle with was the fairly large cast of characters, both in the criminal world and on the police team however the main players are all well-written with just the right balance of detail from their private and professional lives. I was pleased to see that they weren't too cliched as happens in many crime novels, with the DI having a fairly normal family life behind him: a happy marriage and settled older children rather than the broken family scenario which seems the norm in this genre.
The introduction of journalist Bob Souter, childhood friend of DI Strong, added a great dimension to this series as there are times where the two seem to work together yet there is always an element of mistrust between them as the press and police both try to crack the case.  Whether the journalist proves to be a help or a hindrance remains to be seen - especially when a family member has access to sensitive information about the case which is not in the public domain.
With the possibility of corruption within the Force, Strong has his work cut out for him to get to the truth whilst not rocking the boat with his superiors.  Who will lose out in this moral dilemma?  You'll have to give this a read to find out...

About The Author: 


David Evans is a Scots-born writer who found his true love as well as his inspiration for his detective series, in Wakefield. Having written all his life, in 2012 he decided to go for it – successfully as the next year, in 2013, he was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award.
The Wakefield Series became an International Bestseller in June 2017 with success in Canada and Australia as well as the UK.
Early 2018 Disposal was published, the first book in the Tendring Series, a new detective series, set in north Essex in the 1970s.
Now, whilst awaiting the fourth book in the Wakefield Series (coming early 2019), the first three books in the Wakefield series have been republished by Orchard View Publications with brand new covers.
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