What an emotional read. G.D.Wright is back to his best. An elderly couple are murdered in their own home. What is the motive? An immersive read that takes us through some tough journeys. Vinny Robson is the detective assigned as FLO to the daughter of the murdered couple. They were at school together, she is a therapist, and Vinny found himself opening up about his mums dementia. Throughout the book, we read Vinny's mum's diary, which takes us back to when she was carrying Vinny and her closeness to best friend Mags. I loved this. It was a real rollercoaster of emotions. I thought I had it all sewn up, but no, there were some twists at the end. Th pacing of the book is spot on and kept me engrossed throughout. I highly recommend this one.

You know you’re in safe hands with Gaz’s books and I have to say that I think Against the Tide is his best one yet! This is book 3 in a series but can easily be read as a standalone (however I do recommend going and reading the other 2 as they are excellent!) This is a thriller with a lot of heart & may well reduce you to tears (it did me!) The characters are fantastic and you will become deeply invested in them. You will have so much fun trying to work out what’s going on as the book slowly unfolds but I don’t think you’ll guess all the twists. I adore Gaz’s writing style and I found myself fully absorbed and desperate to turn the pages to find out what happened. I loved this one and it will stay with me for a long time due to all the emotion I felt while reading.

The third in the DS Sue Willmott Series set in the idyllic seaside town of Beachbrooke this is another classic thriller both extremely tense and highly emotional. Vinny Robson is a DC in the police. His father committed suicide years earlier and his mother Mary is in a care home living with dementia. Told from the POVs of Sue Willmott, Vinny and Natalie together with passages from Mary’s diary. Briefly, Vinny is called out by his boss DS Sue Willmott to a murder scene where a retired couple have been brutally murdered. He is appointed as FLO to work with their daughter Natalie and to try and discover more about her parents and why they were targeted. Meanwhile, his mother has been keeping a diary and in this she talks about a terrible secret that will devastate Vinny if he reads it. A gritty story that opens with a brutal act and with violence throughout. My mother lived with dementia and this aspects of the book was dealt with realistically and sympathetically, it really brought back memories, sadly not always good ones. A book full of twists and turns and a shocking legacy of secrets. This really did bring out all the emotions, a brilliant read.

Against the tide G D Wright Is book 3 D S Sue Wilmot series and it is the authors best one yet. In the small town of BeechBrook there has been a series of home invasions where an elderly couple has been brutally murdered. DS Vinny Robson is investigating the deaths in the town which is also his hometown. But when he digs deeper, he finds that there is something more sinister at play that links to his own family which leaves him horrified. Once again, GD Wright has written another blinder of a read. It’s emotional read and drew me in from the first page. The storyline was gripping and the characters were well developed, and I liked the work relationship between them DS Wilmot and Vinny. This was quite shocking in parts but that didn’t deter me and read it in nearly one sitting. Like the predecessor of books in the series, This I another fantastic read and can’t ait to see what happens next. 5 stars from me.