Six Feet Under (Terry Bell Mysteries #4) by Colin Garrow

Book Blurb:

A murder victim, a deserted airfield, a sinister project. Can Terry untangle the mystery before someone else dies? 

Asked to investigate the death of a building contractor, taxi-driver and amateur sleuth Terry Bell thinks the dead man’s widow may be wasting her money. But when the trail leads to an old airfield and a brace of brutal thugs, he begins to wonder what they’re trying to hide. Tracking down one of the builder’s former workmates, Terry finds him unwilling to answer questions. When the man is beaten up, the canny cabbie gets a visit from his favourite detective inspector. But DI Charis Brown and her latest sidekick seem determined not to get involved. Until the man is attacked again…

In this murder/mystery series set on England's northeast coast, Six Feet Under is book #4 in the Terry Bell Mystery series.

My thoughts

I have previously read and enjoyed the first three books in the Terry Bell Mysteries series.

When I was approached with the offer to read this one as part of the Blog tour for it organised by Emma Welton of Damppebbles Blog tours fame, she's a great person to work with as a Blog tour coordinator.  To say I jumped at the chance was a slight understatement.  I was keen to find out where Colin Garrow took us on this next journey with Terry Bell, the taxi driver and amateur investigator.

I gave this a 4 stars or 8/10.  

This was an enjoyable read that found Terry in the thick of it yet again.  He always manages to get himself among it despite the fact that he's only a taxi driver.  In this story Terry is investigating the death of a building contractor on behalf of the widow.  The trail leads him to an old airfield, where he finds himself among a group of thugs and he wonders what they're doing there.  In his own usual way it's not long before he finds himself in deeper water than what he would like to be in.  Can Terry get out of the predicament he finds himself in without getting to hurt is another matter and can he solve the case he has been investigating?

Colin never fails to convey his stories to the reader with an element of humour and the Geordie accent is very evident in the dialogue of the characters, you can almost hear them saying it as you read the passages of dialogue.

I have one minor niggle, with the copy that I read being an ebook you are told the percentage of the book that's left as you read, I was around 90% of the way through thinking I had around 10% left when it actually ended around 91 or 92 %.  I did wonder what the percentage left was going to cover though as fortunately I had realised that the story was coming to a natural end.  So all wasn't lost so to speak.  The rest of the ebook is a sample of one of Colin's other books.

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.