Dark Game (Detective Kelly Porter Book 1)

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And of course the weird obsession with non-consenting sexual acts and misogyny displayed through the characters without remorse or correction took much away from the actual narrative. The story is frighteningly realistic ; the crimes, as they take place are described brilliantly… the next one can’t come soon enough. The photo was taken by Rob Scahill, a friend and the landlord of The Orange Tree pub in nearby Norton Road and it was this image that sparked the idea for the novel.

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It’s so inspirational because it’s so desolate and isolated you just can’t help think of what people might get away with in that environment. I go there every year and I just have to be on the water or climbing a mountain and a story just comes to me. They carry on until that woman is breathing her last breath – it takes a long time to strangle somebody. This is the first book in Rachel Lynch's DI Kelly Porter series, and already we can't wait for more to come.After teaching history in London at Wanstead High School, she followed her army officer husband Mike around the world for the next 13 years. You would go to a library 20 years ago and have to get out a three-inch-thick book but now you can Google an autopsy. I had to explain to children why world leaders, who are supposed to be people we look up to, do despicable things.

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There, she begins work on a cold case that shocked the local community and on an investigation of two seemingly straightforward crimes. She loves John Grisham and Steven King – ‘the guy doesn’t seem to have any limits’ – but says reading other crime novelists is a double-edged sword: ‘I feel as though sometimes I am scared to read crime because it might put an idea in my head that is not mine, or I might start comparing myself. At the end of the day if there’s a professional saying that this is not quite right, chances are it’s not quite right and you need to just keep working at it. The plot was exciting and full of emotion and twists, it was just a really great book that I thoroughly enjoyed. A change ofcareer after children led to personal training and sportstherapy, before publishing her first novel in 2014.So many unnecessary scenes of violence and r*pe that did not add to the storyline whatsoever, it felt like I was reading a disturbed persons fantasies. London pulled her away toteach history and marry an army officer, whom shefollowed around the globe for thirteen years. The story is frighteningly realistic; the crimes, as they take place are described brilliantly… the next one can’t come soon enough.

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DI Kelly Porter is the sort of lead character to really get intrigued by: Forced out of the Met and regrouping back in the Lake District, she’s damaged but wilful, grizzly but charming.

As a child Rachel ‘always had something to say’, writing stories and poetry and losing herself in books. She does read about forensic and real-life crime however, and body language, which she incorporates into her books. She’s also determined to crack a brutal cold case and break open a dangerous Cumbrian crime network that could come with a heavy personal cost.