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Calladine & Bayliss #1-3
Il silenzio della morte - Una misteriosa scomparsa - La lista dell'assassino
3 grandi thrillerUn'autrice da 300.000 copieBestseller del New York TimesHelen H. Durrant firma la serie thriller che ha conquistato l’Inghilterra.Nel parco giochi del complesso di case popolari di Hobfield, nel Nord dell’Inghilterra, viene fatta una macabra un sacchetto con delle dita mozzate, roba da impressionare anche il più navigato tra gli investigatori. Ma i due detective a cui è stato affidato il caso, l’ispettore Tom Calladine e il sergente Ruth Bayliss, non hanno tempo per la paura, e devono mettersi sulle tracce dell’omicida prima che tutto il quartiere venga sopraffatto dalla violenza.Una corsa contro il tempo per fermare uno spietato serial killer è al centro di Una misteriosa scomparsa. Calladine e Bayliss hanno due cadaveri, due studenti universitari americani. Unico indizio del raccapricciante rituale di il killer ha applicato dei marchi da bestiame alle orecchie di entrambi.Una carta dei tarocchi. È la firma che sulle vittime lascia il killer al centro delle indagini di La lista dell’assassino. Ancora una volta, dalle sole evidenze sulla scena del crimine e dai rilievi dell’anatomopatologo, Calladine e Bayliss dovranno risalire all’assassino. Prima che altre giovani vite siano brutalmente troncate. La serie thriller che ha conquistato il Regno Unito«Una lettura obbligata, una serie di cui diventerete ostaggi. I personaggi, l’ambientazione e la trama sono dettagliati e incredibili.»Sarah Stevens«Un detective-thriller che mi ha completamente affascinato. Calladine e Bayliss sono due partner davvero affiatati e il finale è sorprendente.» Beth Boyd«Questi romanzi non indugiano in descrizioni inutili, ci sono solo grandi personaggi e grandi misteri. E una scrittura veloce, che divorerete.»Mary E«Azione incalzante, trama avvincente e grande ambientazione.»Martha B
Helen H. DurrantAmbienta i suoi libri nella zona in cui vive e lavora, il Nordovest dell’Inghilterra, un luogo che la scrittrice conosce bene, e che si trova tra due contee, tra la città e le colline. Questo posto ricco di insediamenti industriali e scorci di lussureggiante campagna, è fonte di ispirazione per lei, tanto che è proprio qui che si muovono Calladine e Bayliss, i due detective protagonisti della serie thriller di successo.
Helen H. DurrantAmbienta i suoi libri nella zona in cui vive e lavora, il Nordovest dell’Inghilterra, un luogo che la scrittrice conosce bene, e che si trova tra due contee, tra la città e le colline. Questo posto ricco di insediamenti industriali e scorci di lussureggiante campagna, è fonte di ispirazione per lei, tanto che è proprio qui che si muovono Calladine e Bayliss, i due detective protagonisti della serie thriller di successo.
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Published March 22, 2018
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March 22, 2020
I protagonisti sono due detective: l’ispettore Tom Calladine e il sergente Ruth Bayliss. È importante l’ambiente, tra la città e le colline del Nordovest dell’Inghilterra, tra industrializzazione e belle campagne.
Senza infamia e senza lode
Senza infamia e senza lode
August 23, 2019
Box set of books 1-3
Book 1 - Dead Wrong
I joined the Calladine and Bayliss series at Dead Jealous and reading the series from book 1 has been on my TBR list ever since. So I was thrilled to find a slot to go back to the beginning.
Usually I expect book 1 to be slow going with a lot of character building but Helen has successfully avoided this and the book moves along at an adrenaline pumping pace from beginning to end.
Calladine is DI, married to the job. His first marriage broke down in the early stages as Rachel couldn't cope with coming second. He is now in a relationship with Monika who works at the Care Home where his Mother lives. However, he isn't committed to the relationship. He is a good detective but he always looks for things that don't appear to be there and his team find this annoying but what is more annoying is that he is usually right.
Ruth Baylis is his Sargant and a dedicated one at that but she is methodical and deals with the facts in front of her. She is single and happily so and like Calladine is dedicated to her job.
We learn about the characters as part of the story. It is expertly done. The characters gain depth and complexity as the investigation unfolds with events prompting the look back into their backgrounds.
The story had me hooked from the prologue. It starts with school bullies which lead to a boy dying. The death is decided to be accidental but someone wants the bullies to pay for the part they played. When the first body parts turn up it has all the markings of a drug war but the reality is much worse. Who is killing the bullies and why now?
This is a gripping story full of twists and turns but the ending is a shock I never saw coming. This is a brilliant beginning to a bestselling series. Helen has set the foundations on which to build the series and I am thrilled to be along for the ride.
5 stars from me.
Book 2 - Dead Silent
Book 2 in the Calladine and Bayliss series and another brilliant read.
Calladine is suffering. His mother has died and Lydia has gone the last person he needs to see at his Mother's funeral is Fallon, his wayward cousin. Then he is called away to a murder.
Someone is targeting American students and who is Vida? How can these young women go missing and nobody knows or cares? Except Alice, a student who has been doing a bit of amateur investigation.
This is a totally gripping twisty turny book with plenty going on: an abducted child, murder of a witness and the dead/missing young women. Given that Calladine is short a detective and his DCI is ineffectual the team have their work cut out trying to juggle everything so the last thing Calladine is expecting is to have Pandora's box delivered from the grave.
But this is Calladine and with Ruth Bayliss' help he will put the pieces together and get the bad guys, all of them.
The characters continue to develop and I felt I got to know Calladine a lot more. He is a realistic character with flaws and good points and his team all work together really well so it is no surprise that they start to untangle the web of lies and secrets and find the way forward to solve the cases.
Another brilliant read. I am loving this series.
Book 3 - Dead List
I do like the format of the books in this series so far. With the Prologue providing you with a taster and the story switching between the police investigation and the mind of the killer.
The characters continue to develop and the events in their personal lives makes them more interesting and realistic. I won't say too much about the characters and events as I don't want to spoil it for anyone.
This book sees the introduction of Greco (he has a series of his own so I wont say much about him at this stage). When the cases overlap between the different forces Greco and Calladine clash each wanting control of the case/s and Ruth is tasked with trying to persuade Calladine to be less precious which makes for an interesting side story.
The story itself is intriguing and really makes you think outside the box with a very unlikely killer on the loose working through a bucket list. There is no MO each murder is different and the clues are sparse as the team appear to be fishing in the dark looking for something, anything that could turn into a lead.
Lots of twists and turns and a massive helping of stress for Calladine as he struggles to crack the case before Greco .
Another brilliant addition to a very addictive series.
Book 1 - Dead Wrong
I joined the Calladine and Bayliss series at Dead Jealous and reading the series from book 1 has been on my TBR list ever since. So I was thrilled to find a slot to go back to the beginning.
Usually I expect book 1 to be slow going with a lot of character building but Helen has successfully avoided this and the book moves along at an adrenaline pumping pace from beginning to end.
Calladine is DI, married to the job. His first marriage broke down in the early stages as Rachel couldn't cope with coming second. He is now in a relationship with Monika who works at the Care Home where his Mother lives. However, he isn't committed to the relationship. He is a good detective but he always looks for things that don't appear to be there and his team find this annoying but what is more annoying is that he is usually right.
Ruth Baylis is his Sargant and a dedicated one at that but she is methodical and deals with the facts in front of her. She is single and happily so and like Calladine is dedicated to her job.
We learn about the characters as part of the story. It is expertly done. The characters gain depth and complexity as the investigation unfolds with events prompting the look back into their backgrounds.
The story had me hooked from the prologue. It starts with school bullies which lead to a boy dying. The death is decided to be accidental but someone wants the bullies to pay for the part they played. When the first body parts turn up it has all the markings of a drug war but the reality is much worse. Who is killing the bullies and why now?
This is a gripping story full of twists and turns but the ending is a shock I never saw coming. This is a brilliant beginning to a bestselling series. Helen has set the foundations on which to build the series and I am thrilled to be along for the ride.
5 stars from me.
Book 2 - Dead Silent
Book 2 in the Calladine and Bayliss series and another brilliant read.
Calladine is suffering. His mother has died and Lydia has gone the last person he needs to see at his Mother's funeral is Fallon, his wayward cousin. Then he is called away to a murder.
Someone is targeting American students and who is Vida? How can these young women go missing and nobody knows or cares? Except Alice, a student who has been doing a bit of amateur investigation.
This is a totally gripping twisty turny book with plenty going on: an abducted child, murder of a witness and the dead/missing young women. Given that Calladine is short a detective and his DCI is ineffectual the team have their work cut out trying to juggle everything so the last thing Calladine is expecting is to have Pandora's box delivered from the grave.
But this is Calladine and with Ruth Bayliss' help he will put the pieces together and get the bad guys, all of them.
The characters continue to develop and I felt I got to know Calladine a lot more. He is a realistic character with flaws and good points and his team all work together really well so it is no surprise that they start to untangle the web of lies and secrets and find the way forward to solve the cases.
Another brilliant read. I am loving this series.
Book 3 - Dead List
I do like the format of the books in this series so far. With the Prologue providing you with a taster and the story switching between the police investigation and the mind of the killer.
The characters continue to develop and the events in their personal lives makes them more interesting and realistic. I won't say too much about the characters and events as I don't want to spoil it for anyone.
This book sees the introduction of Greco (he has a series of his own so I wont say much about him at this stage). When the cases overlap between the different forces Greco and Calladine clash each wanting control of the case/s and Ruth is tasked with trying to persuade Calladine to be less precious which makes for an interesting side story.
The story itself is intriguing and really makes you think outside the box with a very unlikely killer on the loose working through a bucket list. There is no MO each murder is different and the clues are sparse as the team appear to be fishing in the dark looking for something, anything that could turn into a lead.
Lots of twists and turns and a massive helping of stress for Calladine as he struggles to crack the case before Greco .
Another brilliant addition to a very addictive series.
August 18, 2020
I ordered this set on the off chance having never heard of the author before and I have been pleasantly surprised. This trio of stories is a wonderful introduction to the rural but grisly world inhabited by DI Bi Calladine and DS Bayliss. With any new set of character's it can take time to make the acquaintance of the main protagonists but the author has an easy writing style that makes this process refreshingly swift. The villains were deliciously different in each book and the main crime storylines backed up by interesting personal subplots for each character. I consumed each book one after the other, eager to find out the next twist in the ongoing story and was genuinely sorry when I finished the third. So much so that I went online straight away and bought the next instalment. In my book that's always a good sign!
March 20, 2019
Absolutely fantastic
Wow, I am I massive fan of books that have a series, and have always read James Patterson, David Baldalci and Patricia Cornwell. Calladine and Bayliss are for me just as gripping. From the very beginning of book one I was totally gripped, I haven't read 3 books so quickly in a long time and can't wait to read book 4. I only read these after reading some reviews and thought I would see for myself what they were like and am so glad I did. So if you're a fan of great writing, good gripping stories then you will love these.
Wow, I am I massive fan of books that have a series, and have always read James Patterson, David Baldalci and Patricia Cornwell. Calladine and Bayliss are for me just as gripping. From the very beginning of book one I was totally gripped, I haven't read 3 books so quickly in a long time and can't wait to read book 4. I only read these after reading some reviews and thought I would see for myself what they were like and am so glad I did. So if you're a fan of great writing, good gripping stories then you will love these.
May 28, 2019
Enjoyed the concept and twists and turns.
Different concept to the usual. Enjoyed the twists and turns and the interlinking of the different cases. Liked the characters and their development.
Different concept to the usual. Enjoyed the twists and turns and the interlinking of the different cases. Liked the characters and their development.
July 22, 2020
Gripping crime thriller box set.
Loved these gripping crime thrilkers. Well written and believable storylines. Found all the characters relatable. Can't wait to read then next in series
Loved these gripping crime thrilkers. Well written and believable storylines. Found all the characters relatable. Can't wait to read then next in series
June 5, 2019
Book 3
I have come to thoroughly enjoy reading this series. I do look forward to the next. When I'm reading I feel like I am at the scene!
I have come to thoroughly enjoy reading this series. I do look forward to the next. When I'm reading I feel like I am at the scene!
June 12, 2023
Great read
July 16, 2023
Una trilogia appassionante. Autrice poco conosciuta in Italia, ma meritevole.
April 20, 2025
A top trio of novels.
These books I have had quite a time and I have enjoyed them.they are the first ones in a new series.I have all of which the author has written really great characters and enthralling storylines.So onwards and upwards,I recommend the reads.
These books I have had quite a time and I have enjoyed them.they are the first ones in a new series.I have all of which the author has written really great characters and enthralling storylines.So onwards and upwards,I recommend the reads.
September 12, 2018
Talmente noioso che non ho finito nemmeno il primo.
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