Murder in Lovers Lane

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Murder in Lovers Lane By Daniel Sellers - crime

Lola has got herself a personal trainer deciding to get fit after her personal life took a bit of a turn. Whilst running they see a misplaced car in a park with its doors wide open but no-one around. On further inspection they find a couple bound together and the man has been shot, the woman unconscious. Lola is a DCI and would like to take the case but there are politics going on and she has to fight for it. Who would want the couple dead and why leave them like this in full view?

This is the second in the Lola Harris series and happily stands alone (I hadn’t read the first one). This is also a new author to me and one I shall certainly look out for in the future. It's a wonderful easy read where the pages turned effortlessly and I quickly took to Lola and her determination and tenacity in getting to the truth. It’s a story where things are not as straightforward as they first might seem which sets the scene for some background which works well. Lola’s character is given depth by some personal goings on- something I like to give a character a little profundity without taking too much page space or detracting from the main plot- a careful balance well executed. A highly enjoyable read and I look forward to the next in the series.

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DANIEL SELLERS Daniel Sellers grew up in Yorkshire. He has lived and worked in Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, and Vaasa in Finland. He now lives in Argyll with his partner and a wheaten terrier called Rasmus. Daniel loves crime fiction, old and new, particularly the work of Margaret Murphy, Mo Hayder, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James and Josephine Tey. He is a huge (if not obsessive!) fan of Agatha Christie, collecting first editions and managing the “For the Love of Agatha” Twitter fan account (@FortheLoveofAg1). Daniel’s detective thrillers are pacy and dark, with as much interest in whydunnit as who. BOOKS BY DANIEL SELLERS: DI LOLA HARRIS SERIES: MURDER IN THE GALLOWGATE MURDER IN LOVERS’ LANE FOLLOW DANIEL ON: TWITTER INSTAGRAM

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