#BlogTour: Binary Witness by Rosie Claverton @rosieclaverton @CrimeSceneBooks @annecater #AmyLaneMysteries #RandomThingsTours

Book Blurb:

A young woman trapped by her fear.
A serial killer on the prowl.
An ex-con hiding from a vengeful gang.

As clubbers in Cardiff are targeted by a brutal murderer, the police turn to unconventional means to catch the killer. Amy Lane, a desperately agoraphobic grey-hat hacker, only at peace with her fingers on a keyboard and her eyes on a screen, can peek into virtual corners in ways DI Bryn Hesketh would rather not know about. But he needs her skills, and turns to her for help. Jason, an ex-con looking to go straight, starts as Amy’s cleaner, but soon becomes much more.

An entirely new edition of the first thrilling story in Rosie Claverton’s stunning Amy Lane mystery series, available for the first time in paperback.

Binary witness was republished in ebook and paperback on the 20th April 2018 along with Code Runner, the second book in the series.  You can by a copy of both here.

My Review:

Binary witness is the start of a great new crime series that I’m excited to read more of.

Firstly I loved the partnership that develops between Amy and Jason.  They are a great team, each feeding off one another and complimenting each other.  It was great that both of them were able to help each other navigate through the new world they find themselves in, Jason who is finding his feet after being in prison and Amy who hasn’t been outside for years following a traumatic event.  It wasn’t a normal, stereotypical crime detective pairing which made the book more interesting to read about.  Their personality and quirks helped add a human element to the story which made you care more about them and what the outcome was.  I really wanted them to succeed and prove to others that they could do it.

Amy’s technical ability was very interesting to read about and has made me think twice about my passwords and the stuff I post on line.  The amount of information she was able to glean from the internet was shocking and made me realise how vulnerable we are to criminals stealing our information.

This was a fairly easy read in that the pace was quite fast, with lots of action and reveals which helped keep me interested.  The chapters are short which means it is an easy book to pick up and put down when you haven’t got long to read- great when you’re trying to grab five minutes peace from the kids! The reader is a witness to each victim’s last moments which is allows the reader to get to know each character so that they feel more empathy for them and what happens to them.

Binary Witness was the first book Rosie Claverton wrote and the first that I have read.  She has since written three more in the Amy Lane Mystery series and I really look forward to reading them.

Thanks to Anne Cater and Crime Scene books for my copy of this book the invitation to join the blog tour.

 

About The Author:

Rosie Claverton is a novelist, screenwriter, and junior psychiatrist. She grew up in Devon, daughter to a Sri Lankan father and a Norfolk mother, surrounded by folk mythology and surly sheep. She moved to Cardiff to study Medicine and adopted Wales as her home. She then moved to London to specialise in psychiatry.

Her first short film Dragon Chasers aired on BBC Wales in Autumn 2012. She co-wrote the ground-breaking series of short films The Underwater Realm. Her Cardiff-based crime series The Amy Lane Mysteries is published by Crime Scene Books.

Between writing and medicine, she blogs about psychiatry and psychology for writers in her Freudian Script series, advocating for accurate and sensitive portrayals of people with mental health problems in fiction.

Recently returned to Cardiff, she lives with her journalist husband and their nearly new daughter.

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