*Blog Tour: Risk of Harm by Lucie Whitehouse

Today I'm on the blog tour for the fantastic Risk of Harm by Lucie Whitehouse. I received a copy via Netgalley from the Publisher to enable me to take part in the tour (I didn't realise it was second in a fantastic series, so dashed back and read the first one). Roll on book #3.

Robin Lyons is back in her hometown of Birmingham and now a DCI with Force Homicide, working directly under Samir, the man who broke her heart almost twenty years ago.

When a woman is found stabbed to death in a derelict factory and no one comes forward to identify the body, Robin and her team must not only hunt for the murderer, but also solve the mystery of who their victim might be.

As Robin and Samir come under pressure from their superiors, from the media and from far-right nationalists with a dangerous agenda, tensions in Robin's own family threaten to reach breaking point. And when a cold case from decades ago begins to smoulder and another woman is found dead in similar circumstances, rumours of a serial killer begin to spread.

In order to get to the truth Robin will need to discover where loyalty ends and duty begins. But before she can trust, she is going to have to forgive – and that means grappling with some painful home truths.

About the author:

Lucie Whitehouse was born in Gloucestershire in 1975, read classics at Oxford University and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of The House at Midnight, the TV Book Club pick The Bed I Made and Before We Met, which was a Richard & Judy Summer Book Club Pick and an ITV Crime Thriller Selection.

My Thoughts? 

Having not realised this was the 2nd in the fantastic DCI Robin Lyons series I made a point of reading book 1 as soon as I'd finished (great to get a bit of the backstory too).

Robin ex-Met officer now works under her ex Samir, the guy who broke her heart 20 years ago for the Force Homicide team in Birmingham, her home town. 

A women is found stabbed to death and rolled in a piece of carpet at the Gisborne, a derelict factory. They have no idea who she is and until they do she's known as "the Gisborne girl". Similar deaths follow over the next few days and Robin and the Team really have their work cut out. The race is on to find the killer. And sharpish.

We also read about family dramas, Robin's brother Luke is a nasty piece of work and she finds out he was behind her heartache all these years ago. She's not going to let it lie despite her mother telling her it's all in the past. Her well rounded teen, Lennie is also a character I love. She's met her first boyfriend and while Robin is happy for her she's also cautious. 

There's a riot which is incited by racial tension in the City which sees Lennie act out of character and her brother get what's coming to him...
I found the story fast paced, interesting and gripping and I can't wait for book 3! Absolutely brilliant. I loved it.