Book reviews: A few books for father's day!

It's that time of year again when Father's the world over are celebrated.  Of course in crime fiction, as in real life, fathers can be good, bad or downright evil.  My suggestions include a single father struggling to work as a police officer, a grieving Police detective who is also father to a disappeared boy and a book that encompasses the bereaved, the vigilante, the desperate and the dead.

   

Wrongful Death by L.J Sellers
Detective Wade Jackson, a single father with a pregnant teenage daughter and a newly adopted and traumatised son is one of the good Dad's.  In Wrongful Death  he investigates the death of a fellow police officer,murdered whilst delivering blankets to the homeless.  With emotions running high among the Police and threats to the homeless increased Jackson has his work cut out to solve the case quickly. Elsewhere a teenage girl commits suicide after being blackmailed and the footage of her rape being posted on social media.  Could the two cases be linked?
Another strong read by Sellers.  The main protagonist Wade Jackson juggles all the balls of a single parent with humour, sensitivity and on occasion anxiety.  Enjoyable light reading.

Available free on kindle unlimited or £3.98 PB £7.64 HB £16.24  audio download free with audio trial
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wrongful-Death-Detective-Jackson-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00NIXMCSO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430228211&sr=1-1&keywords=wrongful+death+lj+sellers
Talking to Ghosts by Herve Le Co

rre is set in Bordeaux France and has a distinctly Gallic flavour to it from the aromatic coffee to the beauty of Bordeaux. Detective Pierre Vilar is a broken man since his young son Pablo disappeared years before.  With his marriage in tatters and the death of a young boy's mother to investigate Vilar finds it hard to ignore the ghosts from his past.  The murder is particularly difficult to investigate as the woman was a solitary being but through the 'ghosts talking' in memory form we soon discover clues from her past.  This is a compelling slow burner, delivered sensitively and yet with understated passion.  An interesting and compelling read.
Available on kindle for £9.91 or HB £18.14
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Talking-Ghosts-Herv%C3%A9-Corre-ebook/dp/B00EPHU2TS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433250698&sr=1-1&keywords=talking+to+ghosts

Sins Of The Fathers by James Craig is all about the Dads. This police procedural takes us through the streets of

London, into all it's nooks and crannies, in the footsteps of Inspector Carlyle.  A father shot by a hitman whilst watching his daughter in a children's playground, a bereaved father acting like a vigilante to revenge his daughter's abuse, a grieving fathere desperate to exact criminal justice through the courts against the man he suspects of abusing his daughter, a father relying on the police to find his missing daughter and Carlyles own father, a man on the cusp of a new stage of his life.  Sins of The Fathers is empathetic and emotional and really explores the motives of the different father's involved.  I found it an absorbing read and recommend it to fans of the police procedural.
Available on Amazon kindle £4.74 or PB £8.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sins-Fathers-James-Craig-ebook/dp/B00SNGRNL2/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433250739&sr=1-2&keywords=sins+of+the+fathers