The Tilt
Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan #2
Chris Hammer
Reviewed by Helen
This is my second Chris Hammer book and I loved it, it was fabulous catching up with Ivan and Nell again as they are called out to investigate the discovery of a skeleton found at the sight of the blown up regulator on The Murray River, they are on the New South Wales border and it is Nell’s hometown.
Nell is thrilled with her promotion to homicide and happy to be working with Ivan, the skeleton has been in the water for around fifty years, defiantly been murdered but finding the killer is not going to be easy even if they can discover the identity, but Nell does her job and soon they know who the murder victim is but the killer is sure to be long gone now, so Ivan goes back to Sydney leaving Nell to tie things up and send the case to cold cases, but when another skeleton is found Nell starts to uncover things that may implicate her family.
Nell is uncovering secrets from her family’s past the more she digs the deeper it goes, add to that the fact that there is something else going on in the town and forest that puts her in real danger, will she uncover the truth about the past and how her family is implicated? And will she uncover what is happening now before her and anymore lose their lives?
This is such fabulous crime story, it was hard to put down, gripping, enthralling and had me hooked from page one, told over three different time lines 1940’s, 1970’s and now with a fabulous setting and strong characters, I do highly recommend this one, it is one not to be missed.
My thanks to Allen & Unwin for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
October 5, 2022 by Allen & Unwin
