The Jansson Tapes (Terry Bell Mysteries #3) by Colin Garrow

 

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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 thoughts

My thanks to Emma Welton of Damppebbles Blog Tours for allowing me the chance to host a stop on the Blog Tour of The Jansson Tapes by Colin Garrow. I was gifted a copy of this book in order to be able to review it, but this in no way has influenced my thoughts and review.

I gave this a 4 stars or 8/10.

This is the third in the Terry Bell Mysteries, which starts with Death on a Dirty Afternoon and is followed by A Long Cool Glass of Murder. Terry Bell the cabbie (amateur sleuth in his spare time) and his sidekick Carol are back in this the third story in the series.

This time instead of it being a dead female, it's a man who has turned up as deceased. As Terry and Carol try to solve the mystery of the dead man and his missing tape recorder! What ensues is typical of the escapades that Terry and Carol find themselves in. Terry always seems to be in the thick of everything that's going on.

I am really enjoying the Terry Bell Mysteries series, having read the first two in this series previously. I enjoy the way that the Author tells the story with a huge nod to the Geordie accent and the way that people living in that area speak. I can almost hear the characters in my head as I read the passages of conversation. The stories are told with an element of humour and lightness despite them being centred around a murder.

I look forward to seeing if Colin Garrow writes anymore in this series, as I would like to see more of Terry and Carol's developing relationship.