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The Graveyard Shift: A Ryan Jarrod Tyneside Crime Thriller
'Horror movies aren't real. Are they?'
Hallowe'en. A body dressed as a vampire is found in a graveyard beneath the ruins of Tynemouth Priory.
It's not the first. In the weeks preceding All Saints Night, two more bodies were a homeless man discovered in a Newcastle city centre graveyard, and a second man in a Gateshead Cemetery. Both had been posed, a stake through their chests, and puncture wounds to the throat. Yet, neither were the cause of their deaths.
Whilst forensic pathologists Aaron Elliot and Rufus Cavanagh work to discover how the men died, DS Jarrod embarks on a journey to discover who killed them - and why.
It's a trip into a little-researched dark side of society, and one flamed by the unnerving feeling sinister forces are at play.
Met with a wall of silence and little evidence, Jarrod makes a decision which pits him face-to-face with an unspeakable evil.
Think of Ann Cleeves or LJ Ross with the gritty, urban twist of Ian Rankin and Peter James - that's the Ryan Jarrod explosive crime fiction in the mould of traditional dark thrillers.
What people are saying about the Ryan Jarrod
'Narrative so rich you can smell the Tyne’
'Crying out to be a TV series or motion picture!'
‘The pace of James Patterson'
'Just when you think you've seen all the plot twists, another one comes along!'
'A Geordie Rebus’
'Felt every pain and anguish. Story line excellent and what an ending'
'Wow! Colin Youngman you've done it again! You've penned another blinder of a novel'
'A real page-turner'
'Excellent twists and turns. More Ryan Jarrod, please'
'A rollicking, edge-of-the-seat read.'
The Ryan Jarrod novels are standalone stories though are best enjoyed when read in sequential order.
Hallowe'en. A body dressed as a vampire is found in a graveyard beneath the ruins of Tynemouth Priory.
It's not the first. In the weeks preceding All Saints Night, two more bodies were a homeless man discovered in a Newcastle city centre graveyard, and a second man in a Gateshead Cemetery. Both had been posed, a stake through their chests, and puncture wounds to the throat. Yet, neither were the cause of their deaths.
Whilst forensic pathologists Aaron Elliot and Rufus Cavanagh work to discover how the men died, DS Jarrod embarks on a journey to discover who killed them - and why.
It's a trip into a little-researched dark side of society, and one flamed by the unnerving feeling sinister forces are at play.
Met with a wall of silence and little evidence, Jarrod makes a decision which pits him face-to-face with an unspeakable evil.
Think of Ann Cleeves or LJ Ross with the gritty, urban twist of Ian Rankin and Peter James - that's the Ryan Jarrod explosive crime fiction in the mould of traditional dark thrillers.
What people are saying about the Ryan Jarrod
'Narrative so rich you can smell the Tyne’
'Crying out to be a TV series or motion picture!'
‘The pace of James Patterson'
'Just when you think you've seen all the plot twists, another one comes along!'
'A Geordie Rebus’
'Felt every pain and anguish. Story line excellent and what an ending'
'Wow! Colin Youngman you've done it again! You've penned another blinder of a novel'
'A real page-turner'
'Excellent twists and turns. More Ryan Jarrod, please'
'A rollicking, edge-of-the-seat read.'
The Ryan Jarrod novels are standalone stories though are best enjoyed when read in sequential order.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 22, 2023
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November 28, 2023
Gripping, more red herrings than North Shields Fish Quay
Another brilliant book in the Jarrod Ryan series. How Colin Young man thought up this plot I dread to think! A believable squad of Detectives and can't wait for the next book
Another brilliant book in the Jarrod Ryan series. How Colin Young man thought up this plot I dread to think! A believable squad of Detectives and can't wait for the next book
December 9, 2023
The best in the series yet, a real page turner. The characters are constantly developing, like the cast of a favourite soap and the depiction of the North East is spot on. Can't wait for the next book.
July 25, 2024
Fast Paced
Not your everyday sort of murders! Fast paced and unusual with a few twists and turns along the way. I really enjoyed it.
Not your everyday sort of murders! Fast paced and unusual with a few twists and turns along the way. I really enjoyed it.
November 10, 2024
I think this is my favourite of the Ryan Jarrod books, I enjoyed it immensely, even if the killer did give themselves away early.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews