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Broadland: A chilling Norfolk Broads crime thriller (DI Tanner Norfolk Broads Murder Mystery Series Book 1) by [David Blake]

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A CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER!
"I bloody loved the book. Wow! Loved the twists and turns!" Ali Dunn

A girl’s body found mutilated by a boat’s propeller, another dumped at the bottom of a slipway, and a disused Norfolk mill, hiding the secret to both.

A COLD DENSE shadow fell over Jane Richardson as she hurried along the concrete towpath. To her left, moonlight danced over the River Bure’s untroubled surface as it slipped silently past, heading back the way she’d come. A low-hanging branch scratched at her face as she ducked underneath. From somewhere far behind her came the shriek of laughter, slicing through the air, only to fall silent a moment later to leave nothing but the sound of her high heels, click-clacking out a stark but steady beat.

When a girl’s body is found strangled, raped, and horrifically mutilated by a boat’s propeller, deep in the heart of the Norfolk Broads, newly arrived Detective Inspector John Tanner is asked to assist with the investigation. At first, all the evidence points to a man who had a multi-million pound reason to kill her. But when an alibi is produced from an unexpected source, and another body appears at the base of a slipway, Tanner finds himself turning to local girl, Detective Constable Jenny Evans for help. As a more romantic relationship develops between them, they find themselves facing a race against time to identify a lethal adversary, one with a lust for blood and a mind set on revenge.

Set within the mysterious beauty of the Norfolk Broads, this fast-paced British detective series is a dark cozy murder mystery with a slice of humour and a touch of romance that will have you guessing until the very end, when the last shocking twist is finally revealed.

Broadland is a totally addictive gripping crime thriller, the first in a chilling series of serial killer books, ones which will rapidly convert followers of L J Ross, Faith Martin, Joy Ellis, Damien Boyd, J M Dalgliesh, and Elly Griffiths into David Blake devotees.

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DI Tanner Norfolk Broads Murder Mystery Series
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07MBTQ7LN
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Oak Publishing (April 5, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 5, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 971 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 332 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #31,237 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #195 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #234 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)
- #255 in Mystery Romance

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NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR

With number one bestsellers in both the UK and Australia, to date David has written twenty-two books along with a collection of short stories. He's currently working on his twenty-third, Bluebell Wood, which is the next in his series of fast-paced crime thrillers. When not writing, David likes to spend his time mucking about in boats, often in the Norfolk Broads, where his crime fiction books are based.

THE DI TANNER SERIES

1. Broadland

2. St. Benet's

3. Moorings

4. Three Rivers

5. Horsey Mere

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7. Storm Force

8. Long Gore Hall

9. Weavers' Way

10. Bluebell Wood (Pre-Order)

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I Really Enjoyed This!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2023

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I am so glad I found this series, another one taking place in the Norfolk area. Loved the humor between Tanner and . The plot was exciting and the writing was wonderful. Looking forward to the next one.

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Good story , but predictable ..... WARNING: SPOILER ALERT

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2023

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This was a decent murder mystery. Nice little twists, but pretty predictable. The writing is excellent, engaging characters. What I don't understand is why the absence of fetuses wasn't discovered during the autopsies? Was it because it would have tipped the ending too early? Quick read to pass the time.

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In the Vein of LJ Ross

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2023

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But I like Ms. Ross’s writing much better. It started out with promise, but I found the pace a bit weak and the plot and writing a bit disappointing and predictable.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 28, 2021

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Well written with interesting characters and a twisty plot. Tanner makes a good protagonist and Evans seems like a decent sidekick/partner/potential love interest. The side characters are also well written. The only challenge I had was with the medical plausibility of an incident near the end. I won't spoil anything by discussing it further, but I'm skeptical it would have turned out the way it did had the injury happened in real life. That being said, it won't deter me from reading further in this series.

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Good kick-off to a new series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2022

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An easy, comfortable read. I enjoyed the settings and character-development. A bit gory, but not especially so, this book is suitable for a mature audience.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2020

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DI Tanner transferred from London to Norfolk for a change of pace following his daughter's murder . Assigned to missing persons, he began his new job, in perhaps a difficult situation . Nevertheless , with DC Jenny Evans , they start an investigation into a missing woman . Then she turns up dead and DI Burgess , not experienced in murder cases, is given the lead . Bumbling the case , well, it gets solved with a lot of embarrassment for the local force . Not DI Tanner. Cozy mystery .

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mwinlv

Pretty darn good, may become an excellent series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2022

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Very interesting, unusual setting. Pairing of detectives is a middle-aged man's dream, but heck, lots of fiction is the same for women. Plot good, characters well written, lots to like.

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Virginia Parrish

The main character is a creep.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2021

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Another abandoned book, sigh. It's not awful, but when the main character, a male police officer is making middle-school level pervy remarks to a female subordinate officer (Is she horny all the time because she lives in Hornung?) on a couple of hours of acquaintance, I can't take him seriously. I kept going, hoping is was going to be just one bit of poor judgment, but the tone-deaf "flirtatious banter" continued. I think the author believes it really is flirtatious banter, but it's just clunky and immature.
As for the rest of it, there's a stereotypical territorial cop already on staff when our new guy arrives, so toes are trodden on, and teeth-grinding ensues.
I read a little more than half of the book, because the plot's not bad, but I just couldn't stand the characters any longer.

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LizzieN4

Absolutely dire

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 7, 2020

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Oh dear! Probably what annoyed me most about this book was the way that women in their 20s and 30s, even murder victims, are dismissively referred to as ‘girls’ — just part of the casual misogyny that runs through this book. There are no senior policewomen; the only female officer (who talks like something out of a Carry On film, for some reason) is seen as love interest for the main character. Other female characters are described mainly in terms of their sexual attractiveness. Also, the attutude to homosexuality is at least 30 years out of date.

Maybe some of that would be almost excusable, were the book well written otherwise. But the writing style is plodding and stilted, and the plotting weak. It’s hard to believe that police really could be that stupid, but in this case their total and infuriating inability to spot the bleedin’ obvious was the only reason this book lasted as long as it did.

I won’t bother with the rest of the series. I can’t see that the author is going to get over his obvious problems with women.

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Sarah H.

Great start to a new series.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 10, 2019

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Having been lucky enough to have had a couple of holidays on the Norfolk Broads, one of which was spent on a boat, I knew a lot of the places that were mentioned throughout the novel which really made it come alive. Whilst you get a feel for how picturesque the area is, you also get to see a lot of a darker side through the crimes committed in the story.

Tanner I really liked. He is a man with a past, of which the author doesn’t reveal to much, leaving, I hope more to come. The glimpses we do get, left me wanting to know more. Whilst the new boy in town, he finds himself not quite getting the easy work life he has envisioned after his move from London. I enjoyed the bit of camaraderie between him and work colleague Jenny. There seems to be a bit of an attraction between the both and will certainly be interested to see where the author goes with that particular thread.

The start of the story grabbed me straight away and the short chapters kept me going. As I would expect from this genre of book, the pace picks up the further towards the end we get and have to say I wasn’t quite expecting how much of an edge of a seat read it would get!

Broadland is a great start to a brand new crime series. The setting and pace of the story was good with some very unexpected surprises which always gets the thumbs up from me. Could easily see this being made into a crime series for television. First book by a new author to me and definitely looking forward to reading more.

39 people found this helpful

Blue and white

Dangerous place the Broads!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 7, 2019

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This is the first book I've read from this author, and if the second is as good I won't be complaining. I love books I can't put down, and this was certainly one of them. Good short sharp chapters mean I don't lose my thread, which is easily done. Long rambling chapters and I can get a bit bored.
DI John Tanner is an immensely likeable chap who has recently transferred from the Met to take up a position in the Norfolk Broads police. Most of his new colleagues are ok, but there's one fly in the ointment (isn't there always) DI Burgess. Tanner is put onto a mispers case, but when the body of a young woman is found in a river, it's all hands to the pumps (no pun intended). Burgess thinks that because he's a local man he knows better than Tanner, but Tanner has far more experience in the murder game, for that's what it is, a murder. Then another body is found in very similar circumstances, and the plot starts to thicken.
During the investigation when things are starting to fall into place, another murder happens which is caused partly by the press inflaming the situation by jumping to conclusions and printing an untrue story. At the end, Tanner and his trusty DC, Jenny Evans (possible love interest) find themselves in a precarious situation, with an ending that no-one could have predicted.
This book grabbed my attention from the start, and I galloped through it with unnerving speed. I very much look forward to reading the next in this series.

28 people found this helpful

Philmarie

Poor police procedural

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 10, 2019

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I was disappointed with this book, the relationships seemed completely unrealistic, the central plot line was guessable at an early stage, the characters poorly developed, and the romance line actually laughable in a professional police environment. Does the author want to write believable police procedurals or romance (involving a tragic hero) set in a police environment? Sorry, not for me. I shan't be seeking out any more of these books.

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Guitargal

Mystery reviews aplenty

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 2, 2020

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All the characters were raging cliches and therefore some were beyond ridiculous. Here we go again....a detective with a tragic past. Yawn yawn! The love interest developed almost instantly, in a way that was as unbelievable as the characters. The DCI was cast as a pompous idiot who in the audiobook sounded like Capt. Mainwairing from Dads Army! The DI was a prat and the oudated policing attitudes just a nonsense. The culprit was obvious very early into the storyline I’m afraid which ruined it for me. The editing , or rather the lack of it, was truly dreadful and where all the 5 star reviews came from is a mystery far more intriguing than this book. The review system is clearly fixed to turn certain books into “best sellers” which is a serious concern. I dislike giving poor reviews but the review system on Amazon and particularly Goodreads now is a joke.

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