Evidence of Things Not Seen:

by Tim Ellis

The new Chief arrives – DCI Nigel Nibley – who hands out the new murder investigations. Parish and Richards are given the case of a murdered ten year-old boy, but a three-link chain tattoo under his top lip hints at something more than an abduction, sexual assault and murder. It becomes a lot more sinister when Doc Riley finds a DNA match on the database that has been sealed from prying eyes. Stick and Xena get the Painted Lady Killer case. Someone has body-painted a young woman as two halves of a clown – good and evil, which includes the insertion of a prosthetic eye, and left her in a house. During the post-mortem, a hidden message is discovered on the body, and they must delve into the world of body-painting to get to the strange truth. Kowalski and Bronwyn have opened up Abacus Investigations. Their first case involves a man – Linus Frost – who has been missing for six months. His daughter asks them to find out what has happened to him, and gives them key in a box that came in the post, but all is not what it seems . . .

333 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 23, 2016

About the author

Tim Ellis was born in the bowels of Hammersmith Hospital, London, on a dark and stormy night, and now lives in Cheshire with his wife and one ShihTzu. In-between, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps at eighteen and completed twenty-two years service, leaving in 1993 having achieved the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 (Regimental Sergeant Major). Since then, he settled in Essex, and worked in secondary education as a senior financial manager, in higher education as an associate lecturer/tutor at Lincoln and Anglia Ruskin Universities, and as a consultant for the National College of School Leadership. His final job, before retiring to write fiction full time in 2009, was as Head and teacher of Behavioural Sciences (Psychology/Sociology) in a secondary school. He has a PhD and an MBA in Educational Management, and an MA in Education.

Reviews

[Tom Elder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tim Ellis
Evidence of things not seen.
P&R (18)
As with all Parish & Richards books it is an easy read. Chief Kowalski has left the force and has set himself up in a PI investigation business. The new chief hands out the crimes to P&R and to Blake and Stick. This book will keep your attention from start to finish. The humour as always in these books is brillian. This is nook 18 in this series and is a great addition. This is a must read book.
5* 26th February 2016

[Barbara · Rating 2 out of 5]

After 18 books, I think I'm done with this series, although I would like to find out the resolution to Parish's original family issues.....the patter between the two sets of detectives is by now, very old and way overdone and goes on way too long. The plots are predictable, and I should have been finished long ago. At least the gore has toned down a bit.

[christine hodson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good read

Tim has done it again. He just keeps getting better.
Can't wait for the next instalment. The banter between the various partners makes me laugh.