Death Awaits in Durham Helen Cox Blog Tour

DEATH AWAITS IN DURHAM A KITT HARTLEY YORKSHIRE MYSTERY BY HELEN COX

PAPERBACK PUBLISHED BY QUERCUS 18TH FEBRUARY 2021

Among the picturesque spires of Durham, Kitt Hartley confronts her hardest case yet: a murder without a body.

When librarian and budding private investigator Kitt Hartley visits her ex-assistant and close friend Grace Edwards in Durham, she learns of an unsolved murder.

One year ago, Jade Perkins, a promising student with her whole life ahead of her, disappeared after her student radio broadcast was cut short with a deafening scream. The police suspect Jodie was murdered, although her body was never found.

Desperate to discover what happened to Jodie, Grace convinces Kitt to try and solve the mystery. But can Kitt and Grace uncover the truth ?

MY REVIEW

I agree with Woman’s Way, that Kitt Hartley’s character is like Miss Marple but set in 2020’s .

THE FIRST PAGE OF CHAPTER ONE

A desperate scream echoed out over the scratchy laptop speakers. The shriek was abruptly muffled and then there was silence.

Slowly, Grace looked over at Kitt. She was perched on the end of the bed in Grace’s dorm room, allocated by the administrative powers at Venerable Bede’s Vocational Academy in Durham. Secretly Grace was revelling in the juxtaposition of the strait-laced Kitt and the kitsch-cool Powerpuff Girls duvet cover she’d brought up from Leeds. If she let on about it, however Kitt would move seats and this somewhat comical view was the only thing distracting her from the morbid story of what happened to Jodie Perkins the year before. After just four weeks at the academy.

All right, that scream’s enough to give anyone nightmares. How did you find out about this? Kitt asked, frowning.

I’d have to be deaf and blind not to know owt about it .

Helen Cox books in the Kitt Hartley series are

Murder by the Minister