Sunspangled by Luke Gladstone Blog Tour Book Review

A huge thank you to Bee at Kaleidoscopic Book Tours, Troubadour Publishing and of course, Luke Gladstone, for a copy of the brilliant Sunspangled to read and review for the blog tour!

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Blurb:

THE MURDER OF A MAN NOBODY WOULD WANT TO KILL

A DI JIMMY MOLASH INVESTIGATION

Surely nobody poisons university students, let alone the good guys like Mark Gower? Yet Mark is dead and the puzzle for DI Jimmy Molash is as much why as who.

Middleham is a typical English town and some of the students and staff at the University have been trying to change the world. Now that Mark’s world is ended, the drivers behind social change come into sharp focus as Molash unpicks the actions of Mark’s colleagues.

Is Mark’s death a by-product of the social and political turmoil of the summer of 2019 or is the motive personal?

Molash is the first detective to combine police procedure with betting theories to catch murderers – but can he land the gamble by finding out the truth before Mark’s killer strikes again?

My Thoughts:

Mark Gowers is coming back to his room after a night in the Uni bar, where he is celebrating the final few weeks at university…
As he lay down to sleep, his body begins to shut down, until his heart finally stops…

Meanwhile the killer is laying on his bed, knowing that by the morning, Marks death would have been confirmed, and that made him ecstatic…

In the morning, his roommate, Jack Freeman, finds Mark’s dead body at 12 Newton Street, Middleham.

This is where the investigation begins…

The book really grabs you from the very first chapter, I struggled to put it down over the weekend!

I read it in 2 days, and it is incredibly well written, with the research that has gone into the police procedural side of things, very evident. A fast paced investigation into the death of Mark Gowers. And I have to say, I did try to figure out the murderer as suggested by the author at a certain point in the book, and I couldn’t do it!

Interesting cast of characters throughout, and Jimmy Molash was brilliant, and the use of betting being used in the investigation, was very clever and not something I have read before.

Overall, a fantastic whodunit, well researched, just a brilliant book, and can’t wait to read more books with Jimmy Molash! Highly recommend!

Miranda x

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