Blog Tour ; Whatever it takes by Heaton Wilson @rararesources

 

Whatever It Takes

DCI Jane Birchfield is facing a series of personal challenges: a rocky relationship with her partner, her mum hardly talks to her; and her boss and mentor is critically ill, which means she is having to cover his post as well as her own. Then she has to take charge of the toughest of murder investigations.

Jamie Castleton is found dead, seemingly frozen in position at a computer in a grubby internet cafe in the Manchester suburb of Ashbridge. Enquiries reveal he was a self employed tech consultant and a computer expert, so what was he doing in there?

The more Jane and her team dig under the surface, the more the evidence points to one of Manchester's biggest companies, Greaves, and its super-wealthy boss, Graeme Hargreaves. This leads Jane into a sordid underworld, and a surprise twist in the investigation forces her to face up to an event in her own past, that she has kept buried for 25 years.

Slowly, but surely, the net tightens around the suspects, but can she stay objective, and can she keep herself, her team, and her relationship, together, and bring the killer to justice? For Jane it has become a personal crusade, but in this race against time there is far more at stake than she ever imagined.

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My thoughts 

A story that will keep you at the edge of you seat!!!

DCI Jane Birchfield and her team is at it again and this time the case is even more dangerous. When a young hacker Jamie Castelton is realized dead at an internet cafe, his mom Irene expects foul play. As revelations are made DCI Jane realises that she is spearheading a murder investigation. Meanwhile on the home front, her relationship with her partner Allan is on the rocks due to her busy work schedule and her mentor lays dying at hospital. Could Jane handle it all. Especially as the murder investigation is revealing some shocking results.

If you are a crime novel fan like I am you would truly love this story by Heaton Wilson.

The writing was very well executed. I especially liked how the murder was not your typical type of murder how Jamie died added to the intrigue in my opinion. The heroine DCI Jane was a very realistic character. Apart from the murder investigation we had a picture of her personal life and got to experience a bit of what it is like for a female holding a big position as she had. Jane handled it well though.

The investigation had me on edge because while reading I had so many thoughts swirling in my brain as to who did it? What was Jamie up to? Why did they kill him? And who was Beavis and in the end let me tell you I did not expect that. I loved every minute of this story. It made me relax on a day when I needed a good story to read. So if you like mystery, intrigue and drama check this one out.

Thanks to Rachel Random Resources for allowing me to be a part of this tour.

Author Bio –  I have been a newspaper journalist, a postman, a public relations officer, a consultant, an actor, a director, a playwright. And I have always kept writing.

I always felt I could write a novel. And I did! The first book in my crime fiction series featuring DCI Jane Birchfield, Every Reason, came out in 2016.  Whatever It Takes was published in 2021; and the third book (which follows on where Whatever It Takes ends) is nearing completion.

I'm from Manchester but now live on the Isle of Wight, where the sea is never far away. It's the perfect place to be creative, and to walk the dogs.

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