ADVENT BOOK BLOG Dec-2018 (2) – The DS Smith Series by Stewart Giles #DSSmith #crimefiction #detective @stewartgiles

Final day of my Advent Book Blog. As a book blogger/ promoter it is very rare that I have the opportunity to read a whole series back to back. Therefore, I feel very honoured to have had the opportunity to combine work and pleasure to help with the relaunch of all the books in the brilliant DS Smith series by the awesome Stewart Giles. I have watched the characters develop and mature especially Jason he has been put through the mill on many occasions and I have been there to witness his phenomenal ability to cope with everything thrown his way and more importantly watched him grow up. I love every single book so today on Christmas eve my final Advent Blog Post features the whole DS Smith series. If you have been following thank you and for anyone else reading MERRY CHRISTMAS and best wishes for 2019.

DS SMITH SERIES

Phobia CoverPhobia – 5 early cases (DS Smith prequel)

Available from:  AMAZON

Phobia is a series of five DS Jason Smith cases he worked on before we met him in the first book ‘Smith’. We get insights into what moulded him into the Detective Sergeant we first get a glimpse of in ‘Smith’. Smith quickly realizes that police work isn’t always cut and dry. Justice is not always black and white; there are many shades of grey in between.

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Smith: A gripping detective thriller (A Detective Jason Smith Thriller Book 1) by [Giles, Stewart]SMITH (DS Smith #1)

Available from: AMAZON

‘The sleepy historical city of York is about to wake up’.

It is Christmas Day in York. A woman is found dead in her bed. A suicide note is found on her chest. It reads ‘I am so sorry Martin’. Hours later the police are called to a house a few miles away. A mother and her daughter have been brutally attacked; the mother is dead and the daughter is barely alive. The father is found shaking uncontrollably in the corner of the room. He is covered in blood but he is unharmed. His name is Martin Willow.

Detective Sergeant Jason Smith is put in charge of the investigation. After reaching dead end after dead end, Smith starts to put the pieces together and figures out that Martin Willow is innocent and the killer is still out there.

The little girl who was attacked on Christmas Day wakes from her coma and gives Smith a clue about the attacker; a piece of a song she heard directly before the attack. Smith then finds himself in a race against time to find this maniac before he kills again.

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Boomerang: The past will always come back to haunt you. A SHOCKING DS SMITH THRILLER (A Detective Jason Smith Thriller Book 2) by [Giles, Stewart]Boomerang (DS Smith #2)

Available from: AMAZON

A man is killing people in York. Initially the murders appear to be the random acts of a maniac. Detective Jason Smith is put in charge of the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the murders are all connected to him in one way or another. All of the killings correspond to events in Smith’s life and the murderer leaves dates at the crime scene which tie up to important dates in Smith’s history. When one of the dates is a time before Smith was even born, he realises he must look deep into the past to find a way to stop the worst spate of murders in York’s long history.

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Ladybird: A DS Smith thriller (A Detective Jason Smith Thriller Book 3) by [Giles, Stewart]Ladybird (DS Smith #3)

Available from: AMAZON

Detective Sergeant Jason Smith is days away from the end of his sick leave after a case that almost cost him his life when he gets a call from an old friend. His friend has been arrested for the murder of a student. He wants Smith to investigate the murder and prove his innocence. Smith is persuaded return to work. The student was killed with a bread knife. Ladybirds were scattered on his dead body.

When another man is found dead with ladybirds on his body, Smith enlists the help of an insect doctor, the enigmatic DR Karen Wood, to try and understand the significance of the ladybirds. As Smith gets drawn closer to this mysterious woman and more and more men wind up dead with ladybirds on their bodies Smith quickly realises that Dr Wood is not who she seems to be.

Smith and his team unearth a terrible secret from twenty years earlier; somebody wants justice and, as more and more men die, Smith realises he is running out of time to find out who.

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OCCAM'S RAZOR: Be careful who you trust A DS Smith Thriller (A Detective Jason Smith Thriller Book 4) by [Giles, Stewart]OCCAM’S RAZOR (DS Smith #4)

Available from: Amazon UK

A football player is shot dead in front of a packed crowd of people. DS Jason Smith is put in charge of the investigation. The murder weapon is found in a house across the road from the football ground. It is a rare Russian army issue sniper rifle. As the investigation hits dead end after dead end, two government agents arrive and take over, pushing Smith and his colleagues to the side. As more people die Smith quickly realises these agents are not who they claim to be. He is forced into the dark world of these phantoms and he finds himself at the mercy of his old nemesis; the man who kidnapped his sister years earlier.

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You may also be interested in:

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 1 – Jan-2018 (1) – The Shoeless Child

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 2 – Jan-2018 (2) – Dark Angel

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 3 – Feb-2018 (1) – Flashpoint

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 4 – Feb-2018 (2) – Ruthless

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 5 – Mar-2018 (1) – Low Lake

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 6 – Mar-2018 (2) – Unworthy

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 7 – Apr-2018 (1) – Black Soul

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 8 – Apr-2018 (2) – Murder at Work

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 10 – May-2018 (2) – Married Lies

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 9 – May-2018 (1) – Dead Bad

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 12 – Jun-2018 (2) – Dirty Secrets

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 11 – Jun-2018 (1) – Their Last Words

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 13 – Jul-2018 (1) – Her Last Breath

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 14 –  Jul-2018 (2) – To Snare a Witch

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 15 –  Aug-2018 (1) – The Backpacker

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 16 –  Aug-2018 (2) – The Other Victim

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 17 – Sep-2018 (1) – Ladybird

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 18 – Sep-2018 (2) – Buried Lies

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 19 – Oct-2018 (1) – The Stolen Boys

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 20 – Oct-2018 (2) – Before I trust you

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 21 – Nov-2018 (1) – Missing Lies

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 22 – Nov-2018 (2) – The Enigma

ADVENT BOOK BLOG 23 – Dec-2018 (1) – The Burning Men

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