Release date: May 31

Disclaimer: I received an advanced copy of She Knew Her Killer ebook from NetGalley and the publishers in exchange for an honest review.

This is the 3rd book in the Detective Claudia Nunn series by Rebecca Bradley. First, I had no idea this was a series and I thoroughly enjoyed the book. That being said, you can definitely read this stand alone. The writer makes reference to previous cases but it does not take away from the story or cause any confusion. I will definitely go back and read the first two!

Detective Claudia Nunn is called out to a local hotel where the body of a young woman is found. Harlow Cunningham is the victim and is discovered by one of her high school friends the last morning of their weekend reunion trip.

Claudia and her team set out to find out what Harlow was hiding and who is responsible for her death. The team starts with the group of friends who haven’t seen each other for years and have come together for a reunion weekend. After multiple interviews, Claudia knows there are secrets among the friends and she won’t stop until she gets to the bottom of them and finds out who killed Harlow.

Things get personal when a key member of Claudia’s team is the victim of a not so accidental hit and run. Someone is desperate to stop this investigation and Claudia won’t stop until she finds out who and gets them behind bars.

This is a great detective book! Love the strong female lead and enjoyed the story. Will definitely check out the other books in the series. Highly recommend and give this one 4/5 stars!

Five old school friends meet up and one, Harlow, is killed. DI Claudia Nunn and team are brought in to investigate. Naturally the school friends don't tell the whole truth let alone nothing but the truth. Initially the police team have been given extra resources - a murder is not what a fancy hotel needs after all, but relatively quickly the team is whittled down to three with no good reason given. something smells. What was Harlow looking for, did she find it? It became rather obvious what this was quite early on and I found the 4 friends odd and oddly affected apparently given that they hadn't met up, or had much if any contact, for something like 16 years. Read it as it is and you'll probably enjoy it more; think about it and, for me, less so. Thanks to NetGalley and Joffe Books for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Joffe Books for an advance copy of She Knew Her Killer, the third novel to feature DI Claudia Nunn of South Yorkshire Police.

Harlow Cunningham has arranged a reunion with her friends from school in Sheffield, but she doesn’t spend all her time with her friends, making secrets trips out of the hotel. On Sunday morning she is found murdered and Claudia is tasked with the investigation, until she starts to make progress and her team is reassigned. What did Harlow know that got her killed to keep it secret?

I enjoyed She Knew Her Killer, which starts slowly but soon ramps up to an exciting read with several twists and turns. It is mostly told from the investigative point of view, so the who and the why are a mystery that keeps the reader turning the pages. These are gradually teased out in a two pronged approach, there is the investigation and there are occasional chapters which flashback to Harlow’s activities in the days before her murder. These chapters don’t initially give much away, but it isn’t difficult to guess the broad thrust of where they are going, if not the detail, and it’s that detail that produces the twists and the motive. It’s well done.

I think the plot is quite imaginative in its big secret. None of it is new to crime fiction, but the author puts it together in a fresh way that holds the interest. I like the concept of the players’ identities and how it came about. I also liked the hint of police corruption and how Claudia fights it. I was less enamoured with the solution, which seems a bit weak in comparison with all the effort that went into stopping the investigation, namely the potential corruption and attacks on the investigating officers.

Claudia is in turmoil in this novel. She is still coming to terms with having killed a man and isn’t getting on well with her father, DS Dominic Harrison, who seems incapable of offering support and unwilling to discuss it with her.

She Knew Her Killer is a good read that I can recommend.

A thoroughly enjoyable read that picked up as it progressed and the storyline evolved. What started as a routine callout to a murder scene morphed into a complex web of family secrets, mysterious forces and reconnections with old friends. DI Claudia Nunn is tasked with investigating the murder of Harlow Cunningham at the Sheffield Hotel. Harlow was ostensibly reuniting with four school friends but from the start it’s revealed to the reader that there is another, darker agenda in play. With alternating progressive and regressive timelines and varying points of view, we gradually become aware of the second agenda that threatens the image and existence of some powerful players. Despite dire personal consequences for DI Nunn and her colleagues, she pushes on to a finale that throws the concept of family and belonging into disarray. This book worked well as a stand-alone for me, though I will be reading the others in the series as well. Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to get lost in this book and discover a new (to me) author.

I read this book very quickly, gulping it down as though I’d been deprived of good fiction for months (which isn’t true at all, I’ve read plenty of great books this year so far, but I have been starved of this level). I’ve been cursing the miserable weather lately, yet I was glad of a gloomy day on which to curl up with this book. I do want, and need, to read it again, though, to properly get under the skin of the story and discover the nuances I may have missed. I give this book a sure fire 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ it is extremely well written, clever and has a lot of mystery and intrigue.

The DI Claudia Nunn series reaches book number 3 with She Knew Her Killer and it is a very good and interesting book with an excellent underlying story.

My only reservation was that the ending seemed a bit rushed and the book would have benefitted from being another 10-15% longer.

That aside She Knew Her Killer is a highly enjoyable book and one I would recommend.

Thank you to #NetGalley for my advance copy of #SheKnewHerKiller by RebeccaBradley.
When the police are called to a murder at a hotel in the centre of Sheffield Detective Claudia Nunn is in charge.
5 friends had come from different parts of the country to reconnect after several years. Now one of them is dead, the other four say they have no details of what Harlow had been doing in the meantime
A terrific story with twists and turns that will keep you guessing.
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A terrific psychological thriller that will get your pulse racing until you get to the end which was great I might add, a very enjoyable book to read

This is the third in the Detective Claudia Nunn Series, it is however the first book that I have read by this author. Set In Sheffield the book starts with the discovery of a body in a bedroom of a classy hotel. The story is told from the investigator's point of view and also from the victim describing past events which led up to her death. There's lots of twists and plenty of action as the story unfolds, I found the book entertaining and gripping and I will definitely read more from this author.

This is the 3rd book in the DI Claudia Nunn series of books, and it’s good as the other 2 previous books.Here Claudia and team are tasked to find a killer when a woman is found in her hotel room in Sheffield murdered, but a few days into the case they are ordered to shelve the investigation after orders are sent from above, and Claudia’s team is reduced to just 3 of them her father Dominic and her best friend in the force Russ,so they are obviously up against it finding the killer.With plenty of twists and turns to come along the way this book will keep you gripped to the final chapter,and it’s a great addition to the series which I’m sure will have a lot more books to come.A cracking 5 star read from Rebecca Bradley again.

This is the third book in the DI Claudia Nunn series, and possibly my favourite one so far.
Claudia and her team are called in when a body is found in a hotel. One of a group of friends visiting for a reunion weekend has been killed, and when they start investigating they discover she has another agenda for coming to Sheffield, aside from catching up with her friends, but none of them know her reason or why she was acting strangely before her murder.
This is a really interesting case, made even more so when the top brass try to stop them getting to the bottom of the case.
It’s tense, with plenty of intrigue and great characters. What more can a girl want?

Fast paced with a good flow and twists and unpredictability. I read this quickly and couldn't put it down, A great read,

Old school friends have a reunion, one end up dead. The dead woman was distracted the whole weekend, but no one really knew why. The more the police team digs into the past of possible suspects, the more there seems to be to hide.

I enjoyed this book a lot. Claudia is a great detective, and it is a joy to follow the police procedural described in this book. The story flows well, and I think the characters in this book were exceptionally well fitting into the story. I devoured the book in just a few hours. The book hooked me from the beginning, and it was unputdownable. Well worth a read!

This book was good. A great storyline,lots of twists and turns. Will definitely be looking for more from this author

A very suspense filled story that unwinds with a look back transitional plot. Do Claudia Nunn is assigned the murder of a young woman who was on a school reunion trip with friends she had not seen in years. When she does not show up as expected one morning, she is found murdered in her hotel room. And the mystery begins and immediately gets complicated by orders from above aimed at stymying her investigation.
The author takes you back and forth between the days leading up to the murder and the progress of the investigation in to it. While I am not usually a big fan of a jockeying back and forth plot, it is almost seamlessly done with no transition readjustment needed.
Besides her relentless pursuit of clues and direction, Claudia is also chasing her own demons: coping with her killing, though righteous, of a suspect in a previous case, her Dad's seeming indifference to her mental fatigue and dealing with her ex. All of which made for a really good and very interesting story.

Harlow Cunningham is murdered while staying at the Sheffield Hotel. The official reason for her visit to Sheffield was reconnecting with four of her school friends, but Harlow had another secret reason for her visit.

Detective Claudia Nunn and her team are assigned the case. It’s going along fine until they suddenly have most of their team reassigned. Who is trying to stop them and why are they going to extreme lengths to impede this investigation?

This is my first book by this author. I haven’t read the others in the series, yet I was able to keep up just fine. I really enjoyed the mystery and look forward to reading more of the series.

Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Detective Claudia Nunn Book 3

Detective Claudia Nunn is called to a gruesome scene at a swanky Sheffield Hotel. Harlow Cunningham has been found murdered in her room. She was in town with four schoolfriends, but all of them say the same thing. Harlow had been distracted and kept disappearing all weekend. What had Harlow been up to? and is it what got her killed? But just as the investigation is getting started, the top-brass start moving Detectives off the case. Soon only Claudia, DS Dominic Harrison and DS Russ Kane are left.

This series just keeps getting better with each new book. This time we look at the events that took place from a murder victims perspective. Harlow had been murdered at the hotel she was staying in, and Detective Claudia Nunn and her team have been called in to investigate. But there is very little to go on. The characters are well developed and believable. The pace is steady and the plotline has been cleverly crafted.

I would like to thank #NetGalley #JoffeBooks and the author #RebeccaBradley for my ARC of #SheKnewHerKiller in exchange for an honest review.

This ARC was provided to me via Kindle, Joffe Books and by #NetGalley. Opinions expressed are completely my own.

Fast-paced, thrills, twists, turns, suspenseful, intriguing, action-packed. Hard to put down.

SHE KNEW HER KILLER by Rebecca Bradley. Interesting perspective, however had trouble with all the background information of the characters. Disrupted the flow of the mystery. Since it is the third book in a series, perhaps it would have been beneficial to have read them first. Ms Bradley's fan will surely to enjoy this next installment.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

A New Perspective…
The third in the Detective Claudia Nunn series and a gruesome occurrence at a luxury hotel means that Claudia is called out to the scene. Introducting a rather new perspective which works well and adds to what is already a riveting and compelling mystery. The cast of characters is well crafted and credible and the storyline intriguing.