Tell Me Why (Georgie Harvey and John Franklin, #1) in Aussie Readers

Aug 06, 2014 Brenda rated it really liked it

Shelves: aussie-authors, borrowed-from-library, 2014-release, first-in-a-series, mystery, crime

4.5★s

Georgie Harvey’s next door neighbours, Ruby and Michael Padley were her pseudo-grandparents; elderly and kind, Georgie still felt put out when Ruby kept asking Georgie to look for a friend of hers who seemed to be missing. Susan Pentecoste hadn’t made the usual and very regular call to her friend and Ruby was concerned. But Georgie was busy; plus her boyfriend A.J. was putting pressure on her to commit to something she wasn’t prepared to commit to. Finally, in part to get away from A.J. she 4.5★s

Georgie Harvey’s next door neighbours, Ruby and Michael Padley were her pseudo-grandparents; elderly and kind, Georgie still felt put out when Ruby kept asking Georgie to look for a friend of hers who seemed to be missing. Susan Pentecoste hadn’t made the usual and very regular call to her friend and Ruby was concerned. But Georgie was busy; plus her boyfriend A.J. was putting pressure on her to commit to something she wasn’t prepared to commit to. Finally, in part to get away from A.J. she agreed to do some digging; heading from Melbourne to country Daylesford in her car she called the Spider, she wondered what on earth she was doing.

Senior Constable John Franklin was part of the small constabulary in Daylesford; he loved his job and knew all of the locals well. His wife Donna had walked out years earlier, leaving him with their daughter Kat – as a teenager now, he was finding she was getting mixed up with things she shouldn’t. Being a single father was sometimes hard work, but he loved Kat to pieces. When Franklin was approached regarding what appeared to be poison pen letters, he was outraged. And as he worked the case his frustrations grew.

Meanwhile Georgie was also frustrated; she discovered that the locals weren’t at all forthcoming – what was happening? Where was Susan? Had she just gone on a holiday, or was there something sinister afoot? And when she voiced her concerns to the local Senior Constable, Franklin dismissed her worries and told her to stop interfering. But of course Georgie took no notice of Franklin – and danger, secrets and evil began to surface. As events hurtled toward a dramatic climax, the players were swept along for the ride…

What a fabulous debut crime novel by Aussie author Sandi Wallace. Filled with a fast and gritty plot with characters that are likeable and very Australian, the twists kept me turning the pages. The countryside was beautifully depicted, the small country town real and I felt like I’d met some of the characters – they are people we pass in the street; people we live next door to…

I have no hesitation in recommending Tell Me Why highly, and look forward to book 2 in the Rural Crime files series.
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