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Calladine & Bayliss #1-3
Detectives Calladine & Bayliss Books 1-3
This box set includes these 3 books:
BOOK 1: DEAD WRONG
A bag of severed fingers is found in the playground by a rough housing estate
Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole area erupts in violence. Their boss thinks it’s all down to drug lord Ray Fallon, but Calladine’s instincts say something far nastier is happening on the Hobfield housing estate.
Can this duo track down the murderer before anyone else dies and before the press publicize the gruesome crimes? Detectives Calladine and Bayliss are led on a trail which gets dangerously close to home. In a thrilling finale they race against time to rescue someone very close to Calladine’s heart.
BOOK 2: DEAD SILENT
A body is found in a car crash, but the victim was already dead . . .
D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to catch a vicious serial killer. The first two victims are American university students and both have livestock tags fixed to their earlobes.
Who wanted them dead and what’s the connection? The detectives piece together the forensic evidence and track down the witnesses, to reach a shocking conclusion.
BOOK 3: DEAD LIST
An unlikely serial killer with a bucket list of victims . . .
Calladine and Bayliss battle a murderer who is working their way through a list of victims. Each murder is meticulously planned and unique, and a tarot card is left at the scene of the crime.
When two children disappear in the local area, the stakes are raised and the team are baffled by the link between the crimes. Calladine and Bayliss race against time to prevent any more carnage.
THE DETECTIVES
Tom Calladine is a single, fifty-something detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life, however, is not so successful. Having been married and divorced before the age of twenty-one has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape.
Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-thirties, plain-speaking but loyal. She wishes she had more time for the gym and a love life. She uses her demanding workload as an excuse not to try too hard with the men she meets. Her hobby is birdwatching.
BOOK 1: DEAD WRONG
A bag of severed fingers is found in the playground by a rough housing estate
Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole area erupts in violence. Their boss thinks it’s all down to drug lord Ray Fallon, but Calladine’s instincts say something far nastier is happening on the Hobfield housing estate.
Can this duo track down the murderer before anyone else dies and before the press publicize the gruesome crimes? Detectives Calladine and Bayliss are led on a trail which gets dangerously close to home. In a thrilling finale they race against time to rescue someone very close to Calladine’s heart.
BOOK 2: DEAD SILENT
A body is found in a car crash, but the victim was already dead . . .
D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to catch a vicious serial killer. The first two victims are American university students and both have livestock tags fixed to their earlobes.
Who wanted them dead and what’s the connection? The detectives piece together the forensic evidence and track down the witnesses, to reach a shocking conclusion.
BOOK 3: DEAD LIST
An unlikely serial killer with a bucket list of victims . . .
Calladine and Bayliss battle a murderer who is working their way through a list of victims. Each murder is meticulously planned and unique, and a tarot card is left at the scene of the crime.
When two children disappear in the local area, the stakes are raised and the team are baffled by the link between the crimes. Calladine and Bayliss race against time to prevent any more carnage.
THE DETECTIVES
Tom Calladine is a single, fifty-something detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life, however, is not so successful. Having been married and divorced before the age of twenty-one has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape.
Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-thirties, plain-speaking but loyal. She wishes she had more time for the gym and a love life. She uses her demanding workload as an excuse not to try too hard with the men she meets. Her hobby is birdwatching.
610 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 13, 2019
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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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