End Game by Liz Mistry Blog Tour and Review!

 

End Game

Four dead bodies. One missing person. Let the game begin.

 

When an anonymous tip-off leads Detective Nikki Parekh and DS Sajid Malik to the sprawling Salinger estate, Nikki’s senses are on high alert. The brutal murder of all four members of the Salinger family has shocked the sleepy Bradford village to the core.

 

A mother, father, daughter, and son. . .  all killed in exactly the same way – whilst sat around the coffee table, playing a game of Monopoly.

 

But Nikki notices that there are five pieces on the board. One of the players is missing… Did they manage to escape the killer, or was the killer part of the game?

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Born in Scotland made in Bradford sums up LIZ MISTRY’s life. Over thirty-five years ago she moved from a small village in West Lothian to Yorkshire to get her teaching degree. Once here, Liz fell in love with three things: curries, the rich cultural diversity of the city… and her Indian husband (not necessarily in this order). Now thirty years, three children, Scumpy, the cat, and a huge extended family later, Liz uses her experiences of living and working in the inner city to flavour her writing. Her gritty crime fiction police procedural novels set in Bradford embrace the city she describes as ‘Warm, Rich and Fearless’, whilst exploring the darkness that lurks beneath.

Having struggled with severe clinical depression and anxiety for many years, Liz often includes mental health themes in her writing. She credits the MA in Creative Writing she took at Leeds Trinity University with helping her find a way of using her writing to navigate her ongoing mental health struggles. Liz’s PhD research contributes significantly to debates concerning issues of inclusion and diversity of representation within the most socially engaged genre of contemporary crime fiction Being a debut novelist in her fifties was something Liz had only dreamed of and she counts herself lucky, whilst pinching herself regularly to make sure it’s all real.

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My Thoughts

End Game by Liz Mistry starts out with an 11-year-old girl with the pouts, she wants to go to the same high school that her friends go to, and she tries to convince her parents to no avail. As she sits under a tree and pouts, her little sister comes to make nice with a bag of treats, her sister returns to the house when all of a sudden a bag is put over her head and she is abducted.

A phone call to the police alerts them of a murder.  DI Nikki Parekh and Di Sajid Malik, arrive in a posh neighborhood to a horrific scene. Four people have been murdered, A father, mother, son, and daughter have been stabbed repeatedly. They are all seated at the table, having recently been playing Monopoly. Four dead people but 5 seats were used. 5 glasses at the table where is the fifth person? Nikki and Sajid now have the daunting task of sifting through the clues and talking to neighbors, business partners of the deceased, classmates to the son and daughter, etc. 

In alternate chapters, the story tells of child abductions that have been and are happening. The reader finds out pretty much in the middle of the book that these children are being abducted for sex, kept hidden, and abused. This was a hard part for me to read as it would be for anyone.

This book is #6 but with the narration from Nikki, the reader is brought up to speed on all the characters in the novel. This book is definitely character-driven, with the good guys and the bad. You really don't have to have read the previous five books in the series to come up to speed on who is who and their past. 

I will most likely at some point read the previous books as there are some events and characters that I am curious about. I love a good murder mystery and this one is right up there with the best. The book had me immersed from start to finish! 

I give it 5 stars

I received a copy of the book for review purposes only.