Dead Lost

<p><strong>An abandoned cotton mill holds horrific secrets.</strong></p><p></p><p>DI Tom Calladine and DS Ruth Bayliss face one of their toughest challenges yet. A group of homeless people have set up camp in the grounds of a disused cotton mill belonging to local businessman Damien Chase.</p><p></p><p>But one of the men is not what he seems. He has a secret he will do anything to cover up. And once Calladine and Bayliss investigate they find the crimes go much further than they could have ever imagined.</p><p></p><p>Will Bayliss be able to juggle her personal and professional lives and can Calladine deal with their new boss a woman he neither trusts nor likes? Willing to do anything to bring terrible suffering to an end Calladine makes an astonishing move . . .</p><p></p><p><strong>If you like Angela Marsons Rachel McLean J.D. Kirk Ian Rankin or Rachel Abbott you'll love this bestselling crime fiction writer.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT <em>DEAD LOST</em>:</strong></p><p></p><p>????? '<strong>Another great book from Helen</strong>.' Granniean</p><p></p><p>????? '<strong>The author's books are so good</strong> that I'm getting through them like I would a bag of candy.' Maggie L.</p><p></p><p>????? '<strong>This book is fantastic</strong>. In fact I got so engrossed in it I read it over the course of an evening.' Tracey</p><p></p><p>????? '<strong>Excellently written . . . I loved it!</strong>' Mach1</p><p></p><p>????? '<strong>Kept me gripped the whole way through</strong>. I would recommend any fan of crime fiction to read these books.' Kindle customer</p><p></p><p><strong>MEET THE DETECTIVES</strong></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-thirties plain-speaking and loyal. She wishes she had more time for the gym and a love life. She uses her demanding workload as an excuse not to try too hard with the men she meets.</p><p></p><p><strong>THE SETTING</strong></p><p>The series is set in the fictional village of Leesdon on the outskirts of an industrial northern English city. There is little work and a lot of crime. The bane of Calladine's life is the Hobfield housing estate breeding ground to all that is wrong with the area that he calls home.</p>