Today I am taking part in the blog tour for a crime thriller “Hunter’s Force” by Val Penny, organised by Love Book Group. There you go.
TITLE: HUNTER’S FORCE
AUTHOR: VAL PENNY
GENRE: CRIME THRILLER
BLURB:
Hunter by name – Hunter by nature:
Can DI Hunter Wilson keep Edinburgh safe when he is the hunted?
DI Hunter Wilson is woken in the early hours of the morning by a call from his son, Cameron. Who has murdered the young student who shares Cameron’s flat? Why would anybody want to kill a young woman recently arrived in the city?
Now that the united police force, Police Scotland exists, Hunter must call in the new Major Incident Team (MIT) to lead the investigation. Hunter’s ability to investigate anything further is put in severe doubt when someone from his past decides to take revenge on him. He goes missing and his team have no idea where to look for him. Who would want to stop Hunter in his tracks?
Hunter’s team must work closely with MIT, with or without him, to solve the murder in this taut crime thriller.
EXCERPT:
Chapter 9
Hunter answered the call from Sergeant Charlie Middleton. He listened quietly and agreed that they did not want to lose track of the three girls from Cameron’s flat. But Hunter was not surprised that Lucky was unwilling to accommodate them. They were nothing to do with Lucky; Hunter wanted to know who they were and why they were here.
“And all three of them seemed remarkably reluctant to say anything, gov,” Charlie said.
“Do they speak English?” Hunter asked.
“A bit. They say they didn’t know the dead girl before they saw her dead, but who knows what to believe? I don’t trust the Russians at all, that’s for sure.”
“What about the other witnesses?” Hunter asked.
“We’ve finished the witness interviews, and all the other witnesses have been released with a stern reminder to make themselves available as and when necessary. Should be fine – there’s your boy, that Lord Lucky whatever, and a couple of soldier boys on leave from Afghanistan. However, gov, I’m just too long in the tooth to trust these three Russian girls to play the game properly. We’re bringing them in.”
“On what grounds?”
“They’re Russian, they don’t know our rules.”
“But you bloody do. You better have a good reason for bringing them in by the time you arrive at the station!” Hunter ended the call, then looked up to see Bear standing at his door.
“That’s the phone number all set up, Boss. Here it is.” Bear handed him a sheet of paper.
“Thanks, Bear.”
“I wouldn’t like you to think I’d been listening to your call with Charlie, Boss,” he began.
“But…”
“But he does talk very loudly on the phone.”
“He does. I think in his day they used two tin cans and a piece of string.” Hunter smiled.
“It’s just that I heard him referring to the female witnesses as Russian, but the names on the whiteboard sound more Ukrainian to me.”
“And when did you become such an expert on the nuances of Eastern European and Russian girls’ names, Bear?”
“What can I say, Boss?” The big man shrugged and smiled.
Tim stuck his head around the door. “And remember, Boss, he did his A-level History on Russia, or rather the old USSR. Mind you, he failed that.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Val Penny is an American author living in SW Scotland. She has two adult daughters of whom she is justly proud and lives with her husband and two cats. She has a Law degree from Edinburgh University and her MSc from Napier University. She has had many jobs including hairdresser, waitress, lawyer, banker, azalea farmer and lecturer. However, she has not yet achieved either of her childhood dreams of being a ballerina or owning a candy store. Until those dreams come true, she has turned her hand to writing poetry, short stories and novels. Her crime novels, ‘Hunter’s Chase’ Hunter’s Revenge and Hunter’s Force are set in Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Crooked Cat Books. The fourth book in the series, Hunter’s Blood, follows shortly.
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