Blog Tour Review, Her Last Chance

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Her Last Chance
HJ Reed

280 pages
Inkubator Books
published March 29, 2023

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About the book

A bullet to the brain. An estranged daughter. And a spate of brutal murders.

A bullet lodged in the frontal lobe is bound to cause a few health issues. For DI Al Crow, it’s just the beginning.

When his estranged daughter Rosie is accused of being involved in a grisly murder, Crow becomes her only hope of being acquitted.

Desperate to save his daughter, Crow goes all out to solve the case. He knows this is a chance to repair a rift that has torn his family apart and to prove to his bosses that he’s still up to the job.

The stakes are high, but things are complicated.

To solve the murder, Crow must reckon with his ex-wife’s connection to a seasoned, ruthless conman and Rosie’s relationship with a dangerously unstable psychologist. Can he crack the case and save his family and his career?

Her Last Chance is an intricate crime thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page.

My Review

This is the first book in a new series about DI Al Crow.  I was a little surprised to see this was book one because DI Crow had such a back story and seemed more like a book that was rehashing previous books.  He’s recuperating from being shot in the head and estranged from his daughter and ex wife.  Really this book was surprising in many ways as I jumped on the book tour at the last minute when they were short on participants and I am so glad I did as I really liked this one.

I always try to stay a little light on details on crime/mystery novels to not spoil anything, but I can gush that I connected with DI Crow and his son in law Larson.  And I think his grandson, while not in very much of the novel, steals the show.  I’m not sure if it is an official trope, but I always love when police officer/detective/person of the law ends up investigating something personal to them.  It really ups the stakes.  And this one when DI Crow is trying to help his estranged daughter it was even a little higher stakes.

The pace was great and the plot kept me guessing.  The twists got me.  What more could you want in a crime novel.  I will definitely read the next one in the series.  I’m really hoping book two can be as entertaining as book one.

While the main character isn’t a female, I still think if you are fans of Angela Marsons or Lisa Regan, this book will appeal to you.

Author Bio 

H J Reed lives and writes in Bristol, where she graduated with a PhD in psychology and began a long career lecturing in psychology and criminology, both in mainstream universities and in the prison education system. Her evenings were spent writing novels and short stories in various genres and styles, and pondering on the strange workings of the criminal mind. After a number of publication successes, she gained an MA in creative writing and went on to teach literature and the arts.  Now, she is able to follow her lifelong passion and write crime fiction full time. When she is not writing, she can be found being taken for long muddy walks by a middle-aged, temperamental toy poodle, or in far-flung foreign cities thinking up new plots.

This is HJ’s first DI Crow novel published with Inkubator Books.

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  1. Zoé

    Thank you so much for supporting the tour and I am so glad you were able to read this for the tour! x

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