Today I’m joining the blog tour for Out Of Sight. I’m sharing a extract from the book with thanks to Rachel Gilbey at Rachel’s Random Resources for inviting me on the tour and to the author for providing the extract.

Blurb:

An utterly captivating murder mystery: the sixth book in the addictive DI Gillian Marsh series. Perfect for fans of Matt Brolly, Cara Hunter and J.R. Ellis.

On the morning of his thirtieth wedding anniversary Stewart Harding is found dead. He was an arrogant and thoroughly unpleasant man and there is no shortage of suspects, but all of them have firm alibis. In any case, everything points towards it being an opportunistic killing linked to a robbery.

DI Mark Webber is assigned as the SIO with Gillian Marsh overseeing the investigation. However, when her mother dies, she takes leave of absence and lets Webber continue on his own.

Webber is making good progress until his colleague – and secret lover – DC Erin Macfadyen disappears without trace. Webber’s world falls apart.

DCI Marsh cuts her bereavement leave short to take over the investigation into Harding’s death and to track down her missing officer.

Extract:

An elderly lady in her eighties, Mrs Winters, at Number 3 at the top of the road, was shocked and horrified to learn that one of her neighbours had not only been burgled but also killed. What was the world coming to? she demanded of the two policewomen. They were unable to give her a ready answer. Mrs Winters was seriously considering moving to a secure residential home but she would hate to leave the house which she had shared with her late husband Hubert for all of their married life. And that was fifty-eight years. Not a trifling number. But she was growing increasingly frightened. Even the postman of the last ten years had left. She didn’t trust the new one. He had shifty eyes. Mrs Winters had a lot to say and it wasn’t easy to redirect her attention to the events of last night and this morning. Unlike the rest of the Masons Lane residents, she was aware of the party in progress at Number 8. In fact, she had been a little disappointed at not having been invited. She had known the Hardings since they’d moved in thirty years ago – soon after they married. The sad truth was, according to Mrs Winters, that like the rest of her neighbours the Hardings kept themselves to themselves. Stewart Harding was outright arrogant, not that she would wish to speak ill of the dead, but it was God’s honest truth: he wasn’t a pleasant man. Nora Harding was nice, but not sociable. She was like an anxious little field mouse, Mrs Winters fancied: scuttling away and avoiding conversation if she could. So yes, going back to the detectives’ question, Mrs Winters had been aware of the party. She had seen guests arrive and park along the street, starting in the early afternoon. One of them, a middle-aged man wearing a dull black shirt, had come late and parked his car inadequately, thus blocking Mrs Winters’s driveway. He was lucky she wasn’t going anywhere, it was Sunday after all; any other time she would have given him a piece of her mind, though mind, these days you had to be careful how you spoke to people. There were all sorts out there.

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Out Of Sight is available from Amazon.

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