Review & Blog Tour ~ Dark Arts by Karen Taylor

Dark Arts, the prequel to Fairest Creatures, sees grieving artist Rachel Matthews return home to Penzance in the winter of 2018, to find herself at the centre of a series of crimes connected to the Cornish art community.

DI Brandon Hammett, a Texan with Cornish roots, is leading the investigations. Both Rachel and Brandon seek recovery and purpose. Rachel uses work at a local school to help her heal. Recently widowed, Brandon looks to set the world to rights and protect his hometown. A town under attack. Violent county lines drugs runners compete with local dealers and smugglers, and the Penzance art community is rocked to the core.

Can Rachel and DI Brandon Hammett steady the ship before it crashes?

I really enjoyed this book, at first I was a bit like - where is this going? But then I was soon gripped and found that I couldn't put it down as the storyline was developing the mystery was getting deeper and I needed to find out who was behind it all.

I have not read the book that this is the prequel for but I don't think that it mattered (although I do want to go back and read it!) I found that I instantly liked our main characters of Rachel and Brandon and loved the chemistry between them.

The way this was written, the book just seemed to flow so well - even though the chapters were written by character name it still flowed seamlessly and kept me gripped throughout, I had not worked out who it was that was responsible and at one point I was convinced it was someone else but I am glad that I was wrong.

Huge Thank you to Love Books Tours & Karen Taylor for allowing me to take part in the blog tour in exchange for a free honest review.