Dead Sorry

<p><strong>The past comes back to haunt them.</strong></p><p></p><p>Twenty-five years ago a schoolgirl was attacked. Ambushed by three bullies at her home where she lived alone with her granny.</p><p></p><p>Now the mother of one of those bullies is found murdered on the Hobfield housing estate. Written on the wall in the victim's blood is the word 'sorry'.</p><p></p><p>Detectives Calladine and Bayliss discover a link to some bones found at an old house up in the hills. It was the home of the teenage girl who was attacked.</p><p></p><p>The detectives have more than this puzzling case on their hands. Arch-villain Lazarov is threatening Calladine's granddaughter and a valuable hoard of Celtic gold is coming to a local museum.</p><p></p><p>The pressure is on and this time Calladine is cracking . . .</p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><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 class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT <em>DEAD SORRY</em>:</strong></p><p></p><p>????? '<strong>Helen Durrant is a master storyteller</strong>. Be it the mystery or the character development or keeping the readers hooked on to the story till the end Helen is the best.' <em>The Book Decoder</em></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify>????? 'I have read every book in this series and they never disappoint. <strong>Great storyline from start to finish great characters</strong>.' Rboard</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>????? '<strong>Loved every single word of this book</strong>.' Jeannie</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>????? 'Another <strong>truly gripping read</strong>. Twists and turns which are unexpected couldn't put this book down.' Lucy</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>????? '<strong>Really love all the characters</strong> and their lives as well as their police team life.' Colin</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>????? 'Totally gripping. <strong>Couldn't put it down</strong>.' Shellybear</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>MEET THE DETECTIVES</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>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 class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>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 class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>THE SETTING</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>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>