The Cavendish & Walker Series: Books 1-3

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When the killer targets Whitney's daughter, also a college student, things become rather fraught in fear and anger. There are surprising twists and turns leading to an unexpected ending. Throughout the book there appears to be a theme of "Secrets". Personal and professional secrets. Secrets that affect relationships and trust; provide fodder for disputes, alter plans, and leverage for occasional disruptive behavior. Ah, another great story starring DCI Whitney Walker and Dr Georgina (George) Cavendish. If I haven't mentioned it before you would do well to start your journey with Sally Rigby's books about this pair of crime busters with book 1 "Deadly Games". While the killer leads the police on a game of cat and mouse, Walker and Cavendish form an uneasy alliance. But will it be too late to stop the worst serial killer in Lenchester’s history?

I wanted to like this series so much! 2 ladies solving a mystery sounded like it was going to be my jam. I am not going to say anymore as I don’t want to give the plot away, but this is a very riveting and powerful story. I loved it. All I can say is read this dark mystery novel with a twist… I don’t think you will be disappointed. I’m still not totally convinced by the two main characters, but they are getting better. We get to see more of George in this book, but the relationship with Whitney still confuses me.I Also enjoy watching the development of the characters and reading about their lives, loves, concerns and work related dynamics. Then there is a problem with Tiffany, Whitney’s daughter. She wants to put her university education on hold and travel to Australia for a working holiday. She knows that this will hurt her mother and asks George for advice. She tells her to inform her mother ASAP but agrees not to say anything to her friend yet. George is a terrible actor and this secret puts a big strain on her relationship with Whitney who sees right away that something is up. She is aided in her investigation by Dr. Georgina Cavendish, a lecturer who steps out of the isolated world of academia after one of her students is killed by the serial killer. Walker manages to make an arrest and it seems like case closed, but then another girl is murdered. Walker is taken off the case, but Cavendish convinces her to keep investigating and the two continue their investigation. In Book 2 the women have accepted their differences although are still not quite easy with each other. George now has a paid consulting role with the police which is causing tension among her academic colleagues at the university where she lectures. Whitney is now dealing simultaneously with trying to identify a serial vigilante murderer while trying to deal with her mother's escalating dementia. Whitney has recognised the value of George's contributions to her police investigations and is calling on George more and more, while overly-reserved George is trying valiantly to loosen up and be more friendly and approachable.

This instalment sees DCI Whitney Walker & Forensic Psychologist Dr. Georgina (Aka George) Cavendish working on a case of a woman being murdered and a pink scarf left at the scene. On returning to the police station one of Whitney’s seasoned soon to retire detective starts to describe things such as the pink scarf🧣 before Whitney had the chance to describe the scene. He was referring to a cold case where the culprit was known the Lenchester Strangler. Is this there a copycat at play? The eerie thing is the latest murderer must have details of the original case, how? The victims are all women who live alone and they all have paintings from the same artist bought from the same gallery. Rigby was born in Northampton in the United Kingdom and lived all over England before making the decision to move overseas. She would eventually move to New Zealand where she still lives to this day and considers it to be the most beautiful place in the world. Sally has had a long love affair with crime fiction, films, and television shows. Her love of the genre really shows up in her writing. After a teenage boy is found dead on a Lenchester train, Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker believes they’re being targeted by the notorious Carriage Killer, who chooses a local rail network, commits four murders, and moves on. Whitney Walker, an accomplished Detective Chief Inspector and devoted single mother, sees her career hanging in the balance due to a past error. However, when a brutal serial killer emerges on the scene, she recognizes it as her golden opportunity for redemption, or, alternatively, a potentially catastrophic career-ender. As she delves deeper into the mystery, the assistance she receives from Dr. Georgina Cavendish, a university lecturer who abandons her solitary academic sphere after the murder of one of her students, becomes invaluable. The main character, Whitney, is insufferable and not a good cop, she arrested the first suspect she talked to bc he had porn on his computer and used an escort service.The cattiness of the women were sooo annoying, like can’t women just support each other and get along for god sakes. This is the second book in the Cavendish & Walker series about a chalk and cheese duo consisting of academic forensic psychologist Dr George Cavendish and gritty Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker. In Book 1 the two women met and grudgingly began a professional relationship with George trying to prove that her academic knowledge could be helpful in a police investigation, and Whitney trying to overcome her prejudices against what she saw as useless academia that had no place in the hands-on environment of a murder investigation. That's all bad enough, but the absolutely worse part is that the police procedural elements were really, really, REALLY crap. Whitney is a terrible investigator. She doesn't follow obvious lines of enquiry. She breaks the rules in ways that would obviously compromise the investigation, and even does so when it's not important, because if police followed all the rules, they wouldn't get anything done (I have very little tolerance for this these days). She has horrible judgment about what constitutes solid evidence, as shown by how she is so convinced that a certain character is the murderer based on extremely flimsy, circumstantial evidence (and also, why on earth is the fact that someone has bondage porn on his computer something that, as is said twice, would lead him to lose his job? Whitney is a judgmental prude, as well as an idiot). It didn't help that, because I was so annoyed at the idiocy of these people, I paused reading Deadly Games for a while and read JD Robb's Faithless in Death. Eve would despise Whitney, and with good reason. But also, even without that, I'm kind of torn by the book as well. On the positive side, I absolutely could not put it down. I raced through it in three evenings / late nights, knowing full well that it would leave me tired at work the next day but not caring. Right from the second chapter, in which the body of a psychology student is found by her tutor, the pace is fast and relentless. DCI Whitney Walker, placed in charge of the case, has been threatened with demotion after screwing up over a drugs raid and now has a massive chip on her shoulder against her boss, who is ambitious for himself at the detriment of his own team and the sort of character we all love to hate. Dr Georgina 'George' Cavendish knows the murdered student and longs to help the police find her killer. But the body count continues to rise, with each victim another student killed in an identical manner. The gap between each killing is getting shorter, and to prevent more deaths is a race against time ... Her aunt has been fostering the girl and they can tell that she is intelligent. Something bad happened to this girl though and she is still scared a year later of whatever it was. Clifford and Birdie will team up to find out who the girl is so that they can help her move forward, but as they get deeper into the case – they realize that she’s not the only one in danger.

This was my first read from author Sally Rigby, did like Deadly Games, liked both of the main characters and can't wait to see them grow with each new book. Forensic psychologist, Dr Georgina Cavendish, has spent her life inside the university walls, but when one of her students is murdered, she steps out from behind the text books and puts her skills to the test. Based on the cover, but ended up finding a new author to read, discovered two likable characters, in DCI Whitney Walker and Dr. Georgia Cavendish, add in a few red herring's, plausible suspects and even with it being easy to figure out whodunnit. I still enjoyed the read, like that the author got her hands dirty verse keeping it clean and it makes 'Deadly Games' so good or at least it was for me.

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DCI Whitney Walker is in trouble. She’s been threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. So, when a killer starts murdering female students at the local university, she knows this is her chance to redeem herself. There is a lot of resistance mainly coming from Whitney. She eventually makes a somewhat hasty arrest and she gives a press conference only for it to blow up in her face when another murder happens. An elusive serial killer. A police officer living on borrowed time. An unexpected twist that threatens to blow everything apart. We’re also fed snippets of thought from the killer. He’s so certain that he is superior and far more clever than the ‘incompetent’ police. He has another 4 victims already lined up and mimics the original murders, but we don’t know why. At first, I thought that he can be a relative of 1 of the victims who’s angry because the murders were never solved. But that would make him just as evil as the original killer and for sure that the police will concentrate their efforts on the new killers instead of on the old ones where they have already a suspect. Or not …?

Finally, the 3 first books in the Cavendish and Walker series have been put together in a box set. If you haven’t bought the individual books yet, this is a great and cheap opportunity to meet this dynamic duo Whitney as usual can manage on her own and does not want any help. Eventually after not getting very far she frostily accepts help. This is the beginning of an exciting new series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and Forensic Psychologist, Dr. Georgina Cavendish. It all begins when George (Georgina) finds the body of a college student who has been murdered. George is a teacher and researcher and wants nothing more to help the police find this killer.They made Georgina an uptight bitch and her bf is a POS tbh he is a terrible partner and just seems to be not a nice man even before she got him cheating. He was a jerk to her almost constantly. There are many twists and turns leading to an unexpected ending. A very enjoyable read and highly recommended! DEADLY GAMES is the first crime fiction/police procedural book in a new series featuring DCI Whitney and Forensic Psychologist, Dr. Georgina (George) Cavendish by author Sally Rigby.