I received a copy of the book complimentary to enable me to take part in the blog tour. Today it's my stop for the fantastic The Man on Hackpen Hill by J S Monroe.
It isn't unusual for crop circles to appear overnight on Hackpen Hill. In this part of Wiltshire, where golden wheat fields stretch for miles, the locals have got used to discovering strange mathematical patterns stamped into the earth.
But this time, it's different. Not only because this particular design of dramatic spiralling hexagons has never been seen before. But because of the dead body positioned precisely in the centre of the circle. DI Silas Hart, of Swindon Police, is at a loss.
Only Jim, a scientist at secretive government laboratory Porton Down, knows the chilling truth about the man on Hackpen Hill. And he wants Bella, a trainee journalist on her first ever story, to tell the world. But Silas has other ideas – and a boss intent on a cover up.
As Bella and Jim race against time, dark forces conspire against them, leading them to confront the reality of their own past and a world in which nothing is as it seems.
An original, intelligent and twisty thriller set in rural Wiltshire. A dead body in a crop circle sends a coded message. Can DI Silas Hart uncover the chilling truth before it's too late?
About the author:
J.S. Monroe read English at Cambridge, worked as a foreign correspondent in Delhi, and was Weekend editor of the Daily Telegraph in London before becoming a full-time writer. His psychological thriller Find Me became a bestseller in 2017, and under the name Jon Stock, he is also the author of five spy thrillers. He lives in Wiltshire, with his wife and children.
My thoughts?
Unusual mathematical crop circles are found in the golden wheat fields on Hackpen Hill. There is a body placed in the middle of each one and that person has met their death in an unusual way. DI Silas Hart & his partner Strover have to carefully investigate these deaths and come up with more questions than answers.
Scientist Jim who works at secret Government Lab, Porton Down believes he knows what happened and is keen for rookie journo, Bella to write his story. What follows is a twisty tale which is told from the viewpoints of Silas, Jim and Bella. Nearer the conclusion to the story we find the characters of Jim and Bella are not all they seem...
An un-put-downable read which I really enjoyed.
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