Two mothers have lost their daughters - seventeen years apart. Can Detective Inspector Calladine bring them justice?
A teenage girl's body is found in the back of a car on the notorious Hobfield housing estate. No one had reported her missing, but she's been dead for a week.
Meanwhile, an old jar is brought into the station. It was found carefully wrapped in a blanket, with a child's pink hairclip. The jar contains ashes and bone fragments.
Seventeen years ago, Detective Tom Calladine had been part of a team investigating the disappearance of Jessica Wilkins. Her mother had taken her to Leesdon Park one summer afternoon. She went to get the child an ice cream and when she returned her daughter was gone. Over the years there were no sightings, no witnesses - nothing.
Will there finally be closure for this unsolved mystery?
Detectives Tom Calladine and Ruth Bayliss will unravel a web of lies and pain, in this fast-moving and gripping crime mystery.
If you like Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean, J.D. Kirk, Ian Rankin or Rachel Abbott, you'll love this bestselling crime fiction writer.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT DEAD JEALOUS: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Great read start to finish with excellent characters, storyline and a very unexpected twist.' Rboard⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I love Helen H. Durrant's Calladine and Bayliss series and this one is the best so far.' Tracey⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Clever storylines by a fantastic writer.' P.A. Burton⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Excellent read with all the twists and turns you come to expect from Helen Durrant.' Vennwood⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Loved this book . . . Brilliantly written.' Maggie L.MEET THE DETECTIVESTom Calladine is a single, fifty-one-year-old detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life, however, is not so successful. Having been married and divorced before the age of twenty-one has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape.Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-thirties, plain-speaking and loyal. She wishes she had more time for the gym and a love life. She uses her demanding workload as an excuse not to try too hard with the men she meets.THE SETTINGThe series is set in the fictional village of Leesdon on the outskirts of an industrial northern English city. There is little work and a lot of crime. The bane of Calladine's life is the Hobfield housing estate, breeding ground to all that is wrong with the area that he calls home.外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
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