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Firstly, I wanted to wish you a Happy Easter. If your back at work the extra holidays will come as a welcome break.
With lockdowns being eased and weather warming as we enter Spring, let's hope for a better future for everyone across the world.
In my last email on 25th March, I informed you my latest book THE MISSING AND THE DEAD would be released on 26th Feb and be free for 5 days.
The book reached number one in several Amazon charts and has been read by over ten-thousand fans of the DI Tom Blake murder squad series.
But I couldn't have achieved this without your loyal support - huge thanks, you are truly amazing!
By way of a thank you, A Place of Reckoning (book 2 in the series) will be FREE between April 3rd and 4th. If you haven't already done so, you can download a copy from the links at the bottom of this email?
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A Place of Reckoning has...
Lots of ★★★★★ Amazon reviews
Three women. Two bodies. One deadly secret.
DI Tom Blake thinks he has the brutal killer in his sights, but there's one problem: he’s disappeared.
With the help of FBI profiler Lucy Stryker, can Blake link the present killings to secrets of the past in time to save Annabelle Lancaster?
Annabelle Lancaster appears to have everything. As well as being married to a rich and powerful tycoon, she has a gorgeous country house and supports a charity for victims of domestic abuse. But behind closed doors, she’s constantly fighting with her resentful stepchildren and trying to save her marriage.
To make matters worse, she fears someone has been following her.
When she suddenly disappears, her husband Charles is convinced brutal ex bare-knuckle fighter, Patrick Dunne has taken her. Patrick promised to avenge his son who died in a tragic accident in one of Charles' factories. It's an open and shut case...
…until a headless woman turns up in a remote Peak District pool: her back tattooed with a cryptic Tarot card.
As Detective Inspector Tom Blake and FBI profiler Lucy Stryker dig into the brutal murder, they uncover long-buried secrets about a historic conspiracy and a clandestine cult linked to Annabelle's abduction.
Someone’s harbouring a deadly grudge, strong enough to kill more innocent people, and Blake and Stryker must unmask a murderer before they strike again.
But with Annabelle’s estranged stepchildren unwilling to aid the investigation, and her blind daughter under serious threat, it's not just her life that hangs in the balance: will anyone get out alive?
In a shocking final twist: those with the darkest secrets will face their...Place of Reckoning.
A Place of Reckoning is the is the second book in the gripping DI Tom Blake Crime series. If you like chilling police procedurals, true-to-life characters, and psychological twists, then you’ll love J.F. Burgesses page-turner.
What Readers Are Saying:
Former Detective and crime author, John Pye ★★★★★
"An engrossing and well-crafted whodunit, with a twist that will leave readers breathless."
Francesca Potts Amazon ★★★★★
"A very clever police procedural with realistic characters. I love how the suspense builds through crime scene investigation and forensics, until the jaw-dropping twist. Crime fiction fans will absolutely love this!"
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NEWS UPDATE
Currently, I'm working on book 4 in the DI Tom Blake murder squad series and planning to release that around May 30th. To whet you appetite here's a short synopsis...
When divorced women belonging to the Facebook dating group - Never too Late to Find Love, begin to turn up dead at historic landmarks with strange clues left beside their bodies, DI Tom Blake is seconded into North Wales police to work with DI Robyn Lloyd on the case.
As they investigate further they discover each of the women have been conned out of their divorce settlements by a dubious retired accountant linked to the Facebook group.
But as Blake and Lloyd try to track down a killer with revenge on their mind, they find themselves pitted against a psychopath with links to terrorism, who will kill to keep their secrets hidden. Can they uncover the truth, before they end up the latest victims?
Thank you for being a member of my VIP Email Club. My aim is to provide a bit of entertainment or distraction as we all get our lives back on track.
If you don't have all the gripping crime novels in the DI Tom Blake murder squad books, you can download those to complete the series here... US readers - UK readers - Canadian readers
Best of all, book 1 is 99c while book 2 is FREE for the next 48hrs!
Take care. Best wishes
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