DEAD SILENT a gripping detective thriller full of suspense

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The other star is Tom Calladine, a fifty-one year old single detective inspector who is totally dedicated to his job. That being said, his personal life is not as successful. After being married and divorced by the age of twenty-one set a pattern that is tough for him to escape.

The story has several strands. The homeless camp seems to be the central point but a very unlikely one. When homeless men go missing will anyone care? Well Calladine and his team do and when their investigations turn up other possible crimes the team are struggling to work out what is going on. A brand-new mystery from #1 bestselling author Helen H. Durrant that will have you gripped from start to explosive finish. Tom Calladine is a single, fifty-one-year-old detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life, however, is not so successful. Having been married and divorced before the age of twenty-one has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape.Dead Silent” is the second book of a new series of detective thrillers featuring D.S. Ruth Bayliss and D.I. Tom Calladine. I started this immediately after finishing the first book which was called 'Dead Wrong”. In this second book, Calladine faces personal tragedy and startling revelations, and Ruth’s relationship with Jake Ireson develops. I don't think comparing her to Angela Marsons [author] was a great move, because Angela's books are just a little more 'accepting' for me as she does write very well and I do find Helen's books sometimes a little too far explained instead of realizing that the reader has a brain and can read between the lines, sometimes things are just a little too far explained. This is set on a low income estate where in itself reap problems and we hear there are more crimes committed than anywhere else. Dead Lost” is the fourth novel in the “Calladine and Bayliss” series, which was released in the year 2016. Horrific secrets are being held in an abandoned cotton mill. This is one of the toughest challenges that Calladine and Bayliss have ever faced in their careers. Some homeless people have begun living in a disused cotton mill’s grounds, one that belongs to a local businessman named Damien Chase.

The story follows an investigation into what is perceived to be a serial murder. Both victims are young thugs/criminals who spend their time on a low income housing estate selling drugs and worse. The Hobfield estate holds out little optimism for the youth who live there. They all seem sullen and antagonistic towards police. Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-thirties, very blunt and loyal. She uses her demanding workload as an excuse not to try too hard with the men she meets. They had a bloody nutter on the loose. This was a maniac who took young women and killed them in the most horrendous ways. He had to be stopped. Everything else would have to be put on hold until they did.”This starts with two cases the first a missing child and the second a body found at the scene of a road accident that forensics said was dead prior to crash. Whilst all this is going on his personal life is still a mess and he gains an unexpected relative or two. His so called cousin is awaiting trial for all his viscous crimes and one by one he is having the witnesses taken out of the equation, one of those on the list is Callandine!!! Day 1. A young woman’s body is found in a shallow grave in the woods, buried in a white shroud. She’s been dead for a week. Her teeth are smashed in, her lips stitched together. Her hands are missing. Second, the characters. This is weakest element of the book. Unfortunately, they are 2 dimensional at best & prone to actions that had me scratching my head, thinking "huh?"

Dead Silent is the second novel in the Calladine and Bayliss series and is a very pleasant read. The detectives are hunting a serial killer, a missing child and trying to sort out their chaotic personal lives, where it's the old cliche of the job getting in the way of romance. The plot is fairly standard with the reader getting an insight into the killer's motivations the police don't have and Tom Calladine making intuitive leaps to move the investigation forward. Normally I don't go for this as I like to follow the investigation through the facts to its logical conclusion but it works well in Dead Silent so hats off to Ms Durrant for pulling it off. Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss battle a murderer who is working their way through a list of victims. Each murder is meticulously planned and unique, and a tarot card is left at the scene of the crime. One thing I think it's worth mentioning for those of you who may be new to this series is this is the first time (that I've seen) one of these books ends on a cliff-hanger. Although, if you look at how many are in the series, I'm sure you can figure out how it ends for at least one character. This is a totally gripping twisty turny book with plenty going on: an abducted child, murder of a witness and the dead/missing young women. Given that Calladine is short a detective and his DCI is ineffectual the team have their work cut out trying to juggle everything so the last thing Calladine is expecting is to have Pandora's box delivered from the grave.I managed to get a fair way into this book before I figured out who the killer was that they were searching for, although I did get to it before they did. I enjoyed the way the character of the killer was written as they were very much the dark, sadistic and obsessed kind who's feeling for all but their obsession was seemingly muted.