Book Review: The Blissfully Dead by Louise Voss and Mark Edwards, winners of The Crime Warp Honours Award 2014 return for the second in their DI Patrick Lennon series

The Blissfully Dead  by winners of last year's Crime Warp Honours Award, Mark Edwards and Louise Voss, is the second in their DI Patrick Lennon series and is deliciously topical, chillingly credible and beautifully crafted. Release Date 29th Sept 2015.

The Blissfully Dead captures the world of teen boy band obsession and is chilling in its' observations.  Lennon, struggling to come to terms with his wife's return to his life is dragged into the horrific case of a young girl's torture and murder.  Links to a famous boy band lead the detective into the world of teen obsession, peer pressure and adulation.  

The Blissfully Dead explores with sensitivity the issues surrounding the hype that lures young people, mainly girls,  
into a parallel world where their idols become larger than life and take on the stature of a God like figure.  The teen characters are realistic and the story twists and turns seamlessly to a magnificent ending.  I enjoyed the letter from the authors at the end of the book  outlining the thoughts behind the novel.  I always find these authors collaborations particularly accessible and real.  The Blissfully Dead is another Voss and Edwards success.
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