Death Under a Little Sky: The new debut rural crime detective thriller you won’t want to miss in 2023 (Jake Jackson, Book 1)

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And it’s just a giant, beautiful farmhouse with a lake that he can swim in, and land he can run around. He can do a five-mile run every day, always on his own land. And he then gets drawn into a little community where a crime happens, and he tries to solve it. But quite a lot of it is all about, ‘What would it be like if you could give it all up, get away from the technology, close your door for once, rather than leaving it open?’ And that's the heart of the novel.” Firstly, let’s set the scene, Jake has given up his detective job following a letter from his uncle, leaving him a property in a beautifully depicted rural escape. Jake leaves for a fresh start, but everything isn’t quite as beautiful as it seems following the annual treasure hunt and he winds up pulled into old boots to assist with solving the mystery of an uncovered death! All this green, all this prettiness, the quiet of the river.. you realise its a hard place to make a life sometimes.’ A former London police detective who's fled his life and failed marriage by moving to his wealthy late uncle's house in the English countryside investigates a cold case no one wants to talk about. Overall, I did enjoy this good blend of mystery, of atmospheric setting with some romance and relationships. It’s just a little bit different from the norm and if you don’t mind a building pace than this could be for you.

I enjoyed this one to a point. It did seem a bit confused about what it wanted to be. Starts as a mystery thriller then veers into cosy thriller, a sort of self discovery book and a romance novel. The end I thought was a bit of a let down and a bit hard to swallow. We have a love interest as well that bulks the book out and some very stereotypical nasty villager types. Firstly, let's start with the setting.. the countryside.. the author made this superbly atmospheric.. throw in a murder and you've got the perfect story. The fact that the small village was completely isolated from any real civilisation made it a whole lot more eerie. Ik moest enorm wennen aan de schrijfstijl en het verhaal komt ook langzaam op gang. De sfeer vond ik wel goed beschreven en ook de vondst van de botten was interessant.The first one, Death Under a Little Sky, is out now and I’ve got a deal to write three more. So there will be four of them. The second one is pretty much written and being proof edited and I’ve actually finished the first draft of the third one. I don’t know if the publisher is happy or just bemused by me, because all I want to do is sit and write these books. I’m not worried about deadlines, I’m not thinking, ‘How am I going to get it done?’ All I want to do is sit and write. I do think this was more of a cosy thriller compared to the more edge of your seat thriller. However, that didn't take away my enjoyment of the book. In March 2014, Abell started co-presenting a show on LBC Radio alongside Sky News television presenter Kay Burley from 8am to 11am on Sundays. Burley was the main presenter while Abell reviewed the papers and added political comment.

I’m a bit of a newbie to the crime detective genre and the pace was a slow burn, but I can confirm I was satisfied with how the plot escalates as the case draws to a head, the last few chapters had me gripped and the realisation over what’s been happening in the calm, cosy, peaceful village is unsettling to say the least!Abell was from 2016 to 2020 editor of The Times Literary Supplement and from 2013 to 2016 managing editor of The Sun. He was formerly a fiction reviewer at The Spectator and reviewer at Telegraph Media Group as well as The Times Literary Supplement. He was also a presenter on LBC Radio. PDF / EPUB File Name: Death_Under_a_Little_Sky_-_Stig_Abell.pdf, Death_Under_a_Little_Sky_-_Stig_Abell.epub