#BrokenSilence #NetGalley
Liz has done it again. A compiling thriller.
On her way home after an exhausting weekend, with colleagues she can’t wait to escape, Felicity notices something odd about the white van in front of her. A hand has punched through the car’s rear light and is frantically waving, trying to catch her attention.Desperate to help, Felicity dials 999 and calls it in. But whilst on the phone, she loses control of the car on the icy road, crashing straight into the vehicle ahead.
Pinned in the seat and unable to move, Felicity feels a sudden whoosh of cold air across her face. Someone has opened the passenger door... and they have a gun.
With Felicity missing and no knowledge of whether she is dead or alive, DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik race to find their friend and colleague.
Please read this book. Its so damn good.
Thanks to NetGalley and HQ Digital for giving me an advance copy.

Liz Mistry's first series, featuring DI Gus McGuire, was excellent, but her new series promises to be even better! This gritty novel, set in Bradford and featuring DS Nikita Parekh as its lead cop, is utterly engrossing from the start, dealing with the contemporary theme of modern day slavery. Bodies appear all over the city, fires break out and the police are stretched to the limit; against this backdrop, Nikki and her sidekick Saj Malik must try to find out who is attempting to be the city's Mister Big. No less fascinating is the personal side of the lives of the principals, which incorporates homophobia, sexism and racism! Brilliant!

3.5 stars rounded up to 4. I liked this, I really did but I did have a few little gripes with it. Also, I thought it would be the next instalment in Liz Mistry's very excellent DI Gus McGuire series. Unfortunately not, because i did love the Gus McGuire series. Its the second book already in a new series that I didn't even know about. Okay, moving along...

DS Nikita (Nikki) Parekh is an outspoken, grumpy, pig-headed, big-hearted, determined, ball-breaking police detective who doesn't take excrement from anybody. I like that, I really do but I found some of the dialogue and internal musings a bit, well - let's just say youngish. In this book a new crime kingpin is set to take over Bradfield and his enforcers are using extreme violence to get rid of anybody not with the program. We have a missing police officer, a dead villain, slavery, more mutilated dead bodies, people trafficking and its all set to go off with a bang one night stretching police resources to breaking point and beyond.

I liked Nikki and her team, I really did but, in addition to the dialogue thing it seemed unthinkable to leave this escalating investigation in the hands of such a small and junior team. I mean I hope that's not the reality of modern British policing. Nevertheless it was a great story and I'll be very interested to see where the author takes this series next. If you like Liz Mistry's books you will not be disappointed with this.

Brilliant book full of twists and turns just when you think you have solved it another twist happens