Love this book. Kept me on the edge of my seat. A must read if you want to be enthralled. May keep you up all night!

I would like to thank Amazon Publishing UK / Thomas & Mercer and the Netgalley website for allowing me to read this book.

I love the beautiful cover of this book where you can see Detective Karen Hart, I think it's her, running on the road.

When you read this book you learn a lot of things, the first thing you learn is that you can hide the truth about a lot of things, someone will know the truth one day.

It all begins when a man is found beaten to death in a wood near Canwick. Karen Hart is still in shock over the tragic loss of her daughter and her husband is being investigated for the murder.

To Karen it seems obvious that there are terrible secrets lurking in the village. Like a network of modern slavery well hidden from the sight of the villagers. She will have to find evidence before the culprits go away. Until the day when key witnesses disappear, Karen thinks there might be a conspiracy somewhere. Who can she trust?

A book read in one go, so much so that I hooked into the story, so moving at certain passages, captivating, addictive, full of suspense and twists and turns with very endearing characters.

I have been enjoying this series about DS Karen Hart, but this one is the most exciting yet. Lots of twists as corruption is uncovered. I don’t want to say too much as I don’t want to give any spoilers, but read this book you won’t be disappointed

*4.5 Stars*

Copy kindly received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a really good read and I liked the characters. It had a good ending also.

Thank you to Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is the third book in the series, and I do feel it would have been beneficial to read the other books first. Nonetheless, a good suspenseful police procedural. Well-written, great characters, Recommended.

Don't Turn Back was a great read by D.S. Butler. In the woodland's of Canwick, a man was found bludgeoned to death. The community is a very small one that now is sent to shock. Detective Karen Hart is brought in to investigate the murder while she is still haunted by the loss of her husband and daughter. Karen starts to believe that there may be a modern-day slavery ring in the small village. Unfortunately for her witnesses start to disappear to try and keep her from the truth. This was a good read about Detective Hart finding the killers.

Another great read in this detective series. This series does not disappoint and in fact they keep getting better and better.  This book was a.thriliing read that kept my interest the whole way through.

This is another book in the Detective Hart series, and even though this one reads nicely enough as a standalone, I would advise you to read the previous books in the series, just to make sure you follow the backstory.  And read the previous books, because why wouldn't you want to anyways! This is one of the best books I've read in 2020 so far, and I can't wait to dive into the next book.  Highly recommended.
TB

This book started out pretty well, but then got a bit slow for me.  Karen is still reeling from the loss of her husband and daughter 5 years earlier.  She has tried putting one foot in front of the other, but finds herself still wondering if there was a cover-up.  When her instant case seems to merge with the people who had caused problems for her before, Karen is left wondering what is really going on.  She is then left to wonder who she can trust and who is not what they seem.  The plot was interesting, but kind of slow.  There were a few times where it was just redundant and was boring  The conclusion was petty open-ended.  
I received an ARC from NetGalley for my honest review.

D. S. Butler is one of my go-to British authors. I especially love DS Karen Hart. No nonsense and do what it takes attitude help DS Hart to find her footing in investigations. 

When things seem amiss and everyone is shutting her down on the accident that ruined her life and killed the two people she loved most in the world, she starts to feel like it's a cover up from the higher ups. 

This new case she's on brings her back around to an investigation she was working on before she had to take a leave. Could they be connected or is it coincidental? Will she ever find out what is amiss with the past?

Can the neighbors be trusted? Did they see what they're claiming or are they a bit senile in their old age? 

This story is quite tumultuous and you will not want to put it down.

While I enjoyed this book, I did not feel that the plot moved quick enough, or with enough OMG moments to keep me intrigued.

DS Karen Hart is still haunted by the death of her husband and daughter in a tragic car accident. She is trying to move on and focus on her job. When a man is bludgeoned to death the trail leads her back to the case she was working on when they died. Was it really a tragic accident?

This is the 3rd in the series featuring DS Karen Hart, I haven’t actually read the second one yet but I don’t think it’s really necessary. But I highly recommend you go check out all the books in this series as they’re brilliant. Great storyline which keeps you hooked from start to finish. And Hart is a great character who I like reading about in each book.

Although I did enjoy her writing, I wasn't in the mood for this before archived up so I didn't finish it before then, but did enjoy it. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher

You never know who or what is genuine and what is fake. I can't really say more about the plot, otherwise I would spoil the fun and thrill of reading it. And it sure is a gripping read with some twists. 

I was a bit surprised how the police is treated by the people their are interviewing. Very disrespectful, and not only by the Perry couple. Also two elderly ladies tell Karen Hart off for being her 'behaviour'/doing her job. And in my opinion she treats them all very gentle, cautious and polite. Something that would never happen in a US-thriller.  I did not like DC Webster at all, she was a horrible b*tch, but she voiced my feelins exactly when she said: "I'm surprised you ever get anything out of interviews if you give up that easily!"

I suspect that Karen Harts personal storyline is not finished with this 3rd part of the series, I think there is even more to it than she found out now. We'll see when the 4th book comes out.

I have not read the first two books in this series but I plan to do so now.  This was a great mystery with a very deep plot that was like a puzzle. Karen is a great investigator, although still broken from personal loss. I look forward to reading more of this series.  
Many thanks to Amazon Publishing UK and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I had a hard time getting into this book.  It seemed very repetitive, very slow, and very predictable.  After the discovery of an unidentified, murdered man, DC Hart is working on two parallel cases, and the connections between the two were fairly obvious right at the start.  Then a case from Karen Hart's past, the murder of her husband and daughter are added to the mix, and once again, you can see where it is going.   The main problem for me is that I don't think I empathized with any of the characters. DC Hart seemed a bit wimpy for her position as a detective constable, her staff seemed to take extra initiative, and her boss seemed clueless.  The book had an interesting story line, but for me, fell a little flat.

This is the first book that I have read by this author. Normally, I am not enthralled by British mysteries, however, found this one engaging.. Think I would have enjoyed this book more if I  had read the author's previous novels.
This was a very detailed police procedural and I look forward to reading more from this author.

I liked the characters and the story overall, but the people who seem like the bad guys are--surprise--the bad guys. The writing was fine, but the ending was disappointing. I liked the two main characters, but there was a surprising lack of tension here. 

Hart's efforts to find out the truth about the deaths of her husband and daughter were more gripping than the murder mystery.

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Don't Turn Back is a fast moving, un-putdown-able book that i really enjoyed. The main protagonist DS Karen Hart, was a smart, empathetic and likeable character. The story began with a man being chased and then bludgeoned to death. DS Hart is called to the murder scene and finds a beer mat in the deceased's pants pocket with the name of a local bar, The Red Lion. Following that lead, she discovers three men in a building on The Red Lion's property who she suspects are living there in squalor and working for petty wages. Thus begins the investigation into what they suspect is human "slave" trafficking and whether the two cases are related is just speculation at this point. 

The case has allot of twists and surprised me all the way till the end. I did not see it coming. I found this book very entertaining and would definitely recommend it. This was my first book by the author and even though it was the 3rd in the DS Karen Hart series it definitely worked as a stand-alone. I look forward to reading other books by D.S. Butler and also more about Karen Hart!

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.