Title : Tallowwood
Author : N.R. Walker
Genre(s) : contemporary gay romance, crime, mystery, suspense
Release Date : September 23th, 2019
Rating : 5/5 Stars
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Cold cases, murder, lies, and an unimaginable truth.
Sydney detective August Shaw has spent the last decade of work solving cold cases. Since the death of his boyfriend eight years ago, August works alone, lives alone, is alone — and that’s exactly how he likes it. His work is his entire life, and he’s convinced a string of unsolved cold-case suicides are linked to what could be Australia’s worst ever serial killer. Problem is, no one believes him.
Senior Constable Jacob Porter loves his life in the small town of Tallowwood in the middle of the rainforests in northern New South Wales. He runs summer camps for the local Indigenous kids, plays rugby with his mates, has a close family, and he’s the local LGBTQIA+ Liaison and the Indigenous Liaison Officer.
When human remains are found in the camping grounds at Tallowwood Reserve, Jake’s new case turns out to be linked to August’s cold cases, and Jake agrees they’re not suicides at all. With Jacob now firmly in August’s corner, they face one hurdle after another, even when more remains are found, they still can’t seem to gain ground.
But when the body of a fellow police officer turns up under the same MO, it can’t be ignored anymore. August and Jake must trace the untraceable before the killer takes his next victim or before he stops one of them, permanently.
“I want to feel . . . alive.”
When you read a good book that made you speechless and cannot find any words to write the review….
I wish I could only said , “DROP EVERYTHING YOU READ RIGHT NOW AND GRAB THIS BOOK. BECAUSE TALLOWWOOD IS ONE OF A MUST READ BOOK!”
But it seems not fair because ALL the feel this book gave me NEED to be appreciate properly. So, after calming myself for two days, I started to gathered all the feels, find my words and write this review…
First of all, I need to say they this book had sucked me deep into the story and didn’t give me a time to breathe! The fast pace and the tensions are breathtaking! Once I started it, I shut down the world and devour it in one sit.
The story was so intense from the beginning to the last page. The murder cases August & Jake trying to solve with all the twists and turns are consuming enough to make me glued to the story. The emotional connections between the two main characters are strong even if it’s kinda instant but feels so deep. They way fate bring they found each other through the cold case August been struggling to solve for years without any help from his colleagues because they won’t believed the possibility of the serial killer case and not just a simple 'suicide'.
When the remnants of bodies found by Jake have the similarities with the victims from August cases, they soon knew that their cases linked to each other. Together they trying to solve the mysteries when finally the real killer start to aim one of them as the next victim….
Could they finally found the killer and bring peace to ALL the innocent souls that lost his life in the hand of the killer?
I remember had serious anxious time during the reading, I cried at some part and have serials goosebumps feel at nearly end of the book! Yup, those kookaburras birds are really something!
And for ALL those feel this book gave, it definitely deserved FIVE STARS from me!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
N.R. Walker is an Australian author, who loves her genre of gay romance.
She loves writing and spends far too much time doing it, but wouldn’t have it any other way.
She is many things: a mother, a wife, a sister, a writer. She has pretty, pretty boys who live in her head, who don’t let her sleep at night unless she gives them life with words.
She likes it when they do dirty, dirty things… but likes it even more when they fall in love.
She used to think having people in her head talking to her was weird, until one day she happened across other writers who told her it was normal.
She’s been writing ever since…
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