Blog Tour Review: Chloe Lost Girl by Dan Laughey

Chloe Lost Girl (Carl Sant Book #1) by Dan Laughey

Published: 5th March 2019

Publisher: Creativa

Pages: 286

Available on Kindle

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Rating: 5/5

Blurb

A missing student. A gunned-down detective. A woman in fear for her life. All three are connected somehow.

Detective Inspector Carl Sant and his fellow officers get on the case. But what links the disappearance of a university student, the death of an off-duty police sergeant, and a professor reluctant to help them solve the case?

Their only clue is a sequence of numbers, etched by the police sergeant Dryden on a misty window moments before he breathed his last. Soon it becomes clear that Dryden's clue has brought the past and present into a head-on collision with the very heart of Sant’s profession.

Racing against time, D.I. Sant must find out what's behind the mysterious events - before the bodies start piling up.

Review

Chloe Lost Girl is the first book written by Dan Laughey featuring Detective Carl Sant a guy who’s dedicated to his work and not afraid to bend the rules to find out the truth. In this first book Carl and his team are looking for missing girl Chloe Lee whose being missing for over five weeks. The team don’t have much to go on so when colleague DC Liam Dryden is gunned down in a massacre about the number 33 bus their focus is elsewhere. The dead detective has left them a clue 3 1 8 is marked in the window of the bus above his body, what does this mean and is it anyway linked to the missing Chloe Lee.

I was hooked from this from the start, possibly because I’ve been on the number 33 bus from Otley quite regularly, so reading about the mass shooting did send shivers down my spine. It’s not just the bus though, this is a great story with so many twists and turns in the plot its bound to appeal to anyone who loves this genre. I loved that there were so many possible suspects and explanations and just when I thought I had it all worked out Dan Laughey goes and throws someone else into the mix for us to suspect.

It’s not the fastest moving story but I enjoyed the slower pace as I got to know the characters more and really get a feel for the story, I guess it helps I know the area very well too so can easily picture the action unfolding.

Great story and I highly recommend you have book two ready to read as soon as you’ve finished this as I was desperate to work out how all the various threads tied together and I’m sure you will be too.

Thank you so much to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to Rachel’s random Resources for inviting me to be part of the blog tour.

About the Author

Dan Laughey is a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University where he teaches a course called ‘Youth, Crime and Culture’ among other things. He has written several books on the subject including Music and Youth Culture, based on his PhD in Sociology at Salford University. He also holds a BA in English from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in Communications Studies from the University of Leeds.

Dan was born in Otley and bred in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, a hop and a skip away from the Leeds setting of his Chloe novels.

His crime writing was purely academic to begin with. He’s written about media violence and tackled the age-old concern about television and video games influencing patterns of antisocial behaviour in society. After years of research and theoretical scrutiny, he still hasn’t cracked that particular nut.

He’s also written about the role of CCTV and surveillance in today’s Big Brother world, the sometimes fraught relationship between rap and juvenile crime, football hooliganism, and the sociocultural legacy of Britain’s most notorious serial killer – the Yorkshire Ripper.

All in all, Dan’s work has been translated into four languages: French, Hebrew, Korean and Turkish. He has presented guest lectures at international conferences and appeared on BBC Radio and ITV News in addition to providing expert commentary for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.

Social Media Links –

Twitter: @danlaughey – Facebook: fb.com/laughey

Purchase Links:

UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07PDLDS7N

US - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PDLDS7N