The Jansson Tapes – review (AD)

12th June 2020 2 By Rachael Stray

I was kindly gifted an electronic copy of The Jansson Tapes in exchange for an honest review*.

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The Jansson Tapes book blurb

When a familiar leggy blonde slides onto the back seat of his cab with the offer of work, taxi-driver and amateur sleuth Terry Bell isn’t keen. However, compared to the tedium of driving a cab all day, the lure of another mystery is too strong to resist, and Terry agrees to help.

Tracking down a missing writer and his tape recorder sounds simple enough, but following the clues to a remote village, the case takes a dangerous turn when the man turns up dead.

After the police take over, Terry and his sidekick Carol return home to find their flat ransacked—and that’s not the only surprise.

Caught between a suspicious detective inspector and the machinations of a mysterious woman, can the wily investigator unravel the mystery before the killer strikes again?

In this murder/mystery series set on England’s northeast coast, The Jansson Tapes is book #3 in the Terry Bell Mystery series.

My overall thoughts on The Jansson Tapes

Although this is part of a series this book can be read and enjoyed as a standalone which is true for my case.

Terry Bell is a taxi driver as well as an amateur sleuth.

He takes on what he thinks is a straightforward missing person case but gets tangled up into something far more sinister – putting himself and others directly in the line of fire.

I really enjoy Colin’s writing style and all the local (Geordie) references and accents!

Terry really bites off more than he can chew with this mystery.

There’s lots of twists and turns int his story.

Corrupt cops, missing tapes, dead bodies and kidnapping – there’s plenty of action in this well-paced page turner.

I’d definitely recommend The Jansson Tapes.

About the author Colin Garrow

True-born Geordie Colin Garrow grew up in a former mining town in Northumberland and has worked in a plethora of professions including taxi driver, antiques dealer, drama facilitator, theatre director and fish processor, and has occasionally masqueraded as a pirate.

Colin has published three stage plays, six adventures for middle grade readers, two books of short stories, the Watson Letters series and the Terry Bell Mysteries. His short stories have appeared in several literary mags,
including: SN Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Grind, A3 Review, Inkapture and Scribble Magazine.

These days he lives in a humble cottage in North East Scotland where he writes novels, stories. poems and the occasional song.

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Publishing Information:
Published in paperback and digital formats on 9 th May 2020

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