Today I’m so happy to play a part in the blog tour for Chris Lloyd’s latest novel, City of Drowned Souls, the eBook version was published just yesterday!
City of Drowned Souls is the third instalment of Lloyd’s Elisenda Domènech Investigations series, and follows on from City of Buried Ghosts which follows on from City of Good Death.
Title:
City
of Drowned Sould (Elisenda Domènech Investigations #3)
Author:
Chris
Lloyd
Release Date: 6th February 2017
Genre: Crime Thriller
Publisher: Canelo
Format: EBOOK
Summary:
When a child disappears,
the clock starts ticking
Detective
Elisenda Domènech has had a tough few years. The loss of her
daughter and a team member; the constant battles against colleagues
and judges; the harrowing murder investigations… But it’s about
to get much worse.
When the son of a controversial local
politician goes missing at election time, Elisenda is put on the
case. They simply must solve it. Only the team also have to deal with
a spate of horrifically violent break-ins. People are being
brutalised in their own homes and the public demands answers.
Could
there be a connection? Why is nobody giving a straight answer? And
where is Elisenda’s key informant, apparently vanished off the face
of the earth? With the body count threatening to increase and her
place in the force on the line, the waters are rising…
Be
careful not to drown.The
stunning new instalment of the gripping Elisenda Domènech crime
thrillers for readers of Ian Rankin, Henning Mankell and Andrea
Camilleri.
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The Series So Far (Books 1&2):
Information about the Book
Title: City of Good Death (Elisenda Domènech Investigations #1)
Release Date: 13th July 2015
Genre: Crime Thriller
Publisher: Canelo
Format: EBOOK
Summary:
An intense and brilliantly
realised crime thriller set in the myth-soaked streets of Girona
A killer is targeting hate
figures in the Catalan city of Girona – a loan shark, a corrupt
priest, four thugs who have blighted the streets of the old quarter –
leaving clues about his next victim through mysterious effigies left
hung on a statue. Each corpse is posed in a way whose meaning no one
can fathom. Which is precisely the point the murderer is trying to
make.
Elisenda Domènech, the
solitary and haunted head of the city’s newly-formed Serious Crime
Unit, is determined to do all she can to stop the attacks. She
believes the attacker is drawing on the city’s legends to choose
his targets, but her colleagues aren’t convinced and her
investigation is blocked at every turn.
Battling against the
increasing sympathy towards the killer displayed by the press, the
public and even some of the police, she finds herself forced to
question her own values. But when the attacks start to include less
deserving victims, the pressure is suddenly on Elisenda to stop him.
The question is: how?
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Information
about the Book
Title:
City
of Buried Ghosts (Elisenda Domènech Investigations #2)
Author:
Chris
Lloyd
Release
Date:
30th
May 2016
Genre:
Crime Thriller
Publisher:
Canelo
Format:
EBOOK
Summary:
Be careful what you
dig up…
Still
recovering from the tragedy that hit her team, Elisenda takes on a
new case. Except it’s not new. On an archaeological dig by the
coast a body is uncovered, seemingly executed with a spike thrust
through the base of the skull – an ancient tribal ritual. It soon
becomes clear that this body is neither ancient nor modern, but a
mysterious corpse from the 1980s.
Assigned to the case along
with her team, Elisenda soon uncovers a complex world of star
archaeologists, jealousy and missing persons. They find a dark trade
in illicit antiquities, riddled with vicious professional rivalries.
And even though she’s staying close to the crime scene, Elisenda is
also never far from enemies of her own within the police force.
Just
as the case seems to become clear it is blown wide-open by another
horrific murder. Elisenda must fight her personal demons and office
politics, whilst continuing to uncover plots and hatreds that were
long buried. How far will she go to solve the crime? Is her place in
the force secure? And can she rebuild her life?The
atmospheric second crime thriller featuring Catalan detective
Elisenda Domènech, for readers of Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves
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My review of City of Good Death #1
City of Good Death( Elisenda Domènech series) is the first in the series. We are introduced to Elisenda Domènech herself and those who work by her side at the city’s newly-formed Serious Crime Unit composed of Alex and Elisenda' small team. We get introduced to many more characters who we do see a few more times in the book and we're all set for the whole book once all of the characters have been introduced and there's no one else hiding anywhere.
We get to see Elisenda in action and we also get to know her sad personal experiences just as the time is right. Elisenda herself is a very strong woman, she stands up for her team and always sticks to what she knows is right and pushes what she believes is right, right to the edge to see if it really is right.
Girona is a beautiful place,located in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region. In this book though, Girona becomes plagued with acts of violence and murder and it is up to Elisenda and her crime unit to catch whoever is plaguing the city.
I don't really want to give too much detail on the story because this story is one of those that can lose its touch if one thing is spoilt. This novel is so heavy. I mean heavy in the sense of when you're absorbed into this world, where acts of murders and violence are suddenlv spiking and morals are being turned on their heads you seem to feel the weight of it all on your shoulders because although immersed in the book, your real life morals are fighting head to head with the morals of the city characters and it becomes difficult to not end up on the same wavelength of Elisenda.
It is a great read from start to end, it took me a while to get into it properly just because I was finding it hard to stay immersed when it came to the short language changes that come up. That was really the only downside to me and even then it really is just a small one. There's enough detail to make you believe you're there and the characters seem to feel like you live next door to them. Deffinetly a 4.8 out of 5. I can't wait to see what's next in City of Buried Ghosts and City of Drowned Souls
About The Author:
Chris was born in an
ambulance racing through a town he’s only returned to once and
that’s probably what did it. Soon after that, when he was about two
months old, he moved with his family to West Africa, which pretty
much sealed his expectation that life was one big exotic setting. He
later studied Spanish and French at university, and straight after
graduating, he hopped on a bus from Cardiff to Catalonia where he
stayed for the next twenty-four years, falling in love with the
people, the country, the language and Barcelona Football Club,
probably in that order. Besides Catalonia, he’s also lived in
Grenoble, the Basque Country and Madrid, teaching English, travel
writing for Rough Guides and translating. He now lives in South
Wales, where he works as a writer and a Catalan and Spanish
translator, returning to Catalonia as often as he can.
He writes the Elisenda
Domènech series, featuring a police officer with the newly-devolved
Catalan police force in the beautiful city of Girona. The third book
in the series, City
of Drowned Souls,
is published on 6 February 2017.
