Having enjoyed the previous books in this series I was looking forward to reading this one, did not disappoint. Great book, definitely worth reading

Good Girl is the fourth book in the DS Grace Allendale series,and in my opinion it is the best yet.Molly and Erin are best friends and have grown up together but when they are attacked on their way home and Erin dies Molly's life is changed forever.Grace with her usual team is tasked to get to the bottom the murder and once again she crosses swords with the Steele family of which she is one and Grace learns more about her brothers and her past the story touches on the dark issue of grooming ,but Mel Sherratt has proved just what a great author she is in this genre,with the short chapters that i think keeps you more gripped to the story Mel Sherratt has a superb series of books going here with DS Grace Allendale and long may it continue,a 5 star winner once from Mel Sherratt.

Love this series, Grace is a really likeable character as a DS. This case looks on the surface to be a stranger stabbing a young girl by her home, her best friend is distraught as was with her. As the police are trying to find the murderer we go back a year to see what happened to the victim Erin and Molly, we are left in suspense right until the end and although I thought at one point I knew who it was I was still shocked when got to the part.
As always Graces family are involved this time with a tragic ending

Good Girl
By Mel Sherratt

4 star

A drama filled mystery triller that keeps the reader guessing until the end.

This is the latest instalment in the DS Grace Allendale series. She follows her hunches as she normally does, revealing more that the initial investigation and skirting the rules as she investigates.

When sixteen-year-old Erin Ellis is attacked, she dies in the arms of her best friend Molly, just metres from her home. Molly is the surviving girl but says she easily could have been the victim – it was a random mugging gone wrong. With inconclusive evidence, DS Grace Allendale must dig deep within the tight-knit Stoke community for leads. And she soon finds that someone had a motive to kill Erin. As the investigation unfolds, Grace is reminded of a horrifying case she worked on earlier in her career.

The story is well written to draw the reader in and hook them to the plot. The suspense of who the killer is will keep the reader guessing.

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One word ... excellent! Mel Sherratt never fails to deliver a fast-paced, page turning mystery. Love DS Grace Allendale.

Thank you #netgalley and #avonbooks for another great eARC in this series.

Ok, so I’m blaming Mel Sherratt for me sitting in the Bath for the last two hours, freezing cold as all the heat had gone from the water, in the dark as it was light when I got in and with my kindle on stupid sized font as I didn’t want to get up and had left my glasses in the bedroom! 🙄

Good Girl is without doubt my fav book by Mel to date, with the usual great characters for whom you can catch up on, to the most gripping and saddening two stories twisting around it other... was totally brilliant and perfect for my last nights cocktail ridden head today, read it in one sitting. If you haven’t pre ordered... get it done today!

Now I’m off to warm up in my dressing gown and feed the dogs and cat who keep poking their heads round the bathroom door to see if I’ve drowned!!

BRILLIANT!! Thanks Mel xx

Children have secrets but in this case unimaginable ones.

A gripping, edgy and chilling story of murder and the grooming of young girls, and yet again tied closely to the dark side of DS Grace Allendale's family.

Strong characters and links to past books in the series, and will definitely not disappoint.

A great read.

Mel Sherratt never fails to write dark gritty thrillers this is another true page turner.There are so many twists and turns based with all his books I read this late into the night.Highky recommend this and all his books#netgalley#avonbooksuk

This is the 4th book in the DS Grace Allendale series by author Mel Sherratt but works perfectly well as a standalone.

Sixteen-year-old Erin Ellis is attacked and murdered close to her home and dies in the arms of her best friend Molly. There is no significant evidence so it is up to DS Grace Allendale to try to uncover the truth from the tight knit Stoke community for leads.
This is a fast paced novel which makes good reading. Some interesting characters along the way. I have read several books by this author previously and she never fails to deliver. Good police procedurals which is just up my street.

I would like to thank both Netgalley and Avon Books for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Erin & Molly. 16 years old. Best friends, like sisters.

But Erin lies dead on her way home one night, and Molly says it could have been her. It looks like a mugging.

But it isn't.

Stoke is full of secrets, and more than one person had a reason to want Erin out of the way....

DS Grace Allendale finds the past coming back - again - as she battles to find Erin's murderer.

Brilliant

Mel is back the top form with this instalment!
Grace and her team (including Allie Shenton, I'd love to see a return of her series!) are faced with a difficult and frankly soul destroying case of horrible child exploitation. Again the Steele family feature heavily, hopefully for the last time.
My only negative comment is that I wish some of the characters voices were more authentic; nobody ever swears or seems to really lose their temper, neither the criminals, devastated victims or the frustrated police, everyone is so polite!

Another great crime story!

This is book 4 in the DS Grace Allendale series. For some strange reason I never read the first book, then I read the second as an ARC I enjoyed it so much that I bought the third one, but did not get around to reading it yet, but now received this fourth one as an ARC and read it in just a couple of days.

So one thing is clear, although it is part of a series of crime books, each one centers around Grace solving a different crime together with her team, so you do not need to have read them all or to read them in order. Enough background information was given for all characters and how they related to Grace, except for Matt. He was referenced once or twice, but one or two sentences of a reminder about who he was and what happened to him would have helped.

Anyways, the crime that takes center stage in this story is the murder of a 16 year old girl. Why was she killed and by whom?
Grace the main detective on this case is just super likeable, as described in this book "she was softly spoken, made everyone feel as if she was there for them, and not just doing her job." The story is not just about solving this crime but also about Grace and her family and it is well worth reading.

Wow. This author is amazing i love this series. Look forward to every book. Cant wait to see what happens next. I actually need the next one right now.. I didnt expect any of the big twists that were in there

What can i say all of Mel's books are brilliant. Gritty, page turner and read in bed in one sitting. If you haven't read Mel's books best you get buying. Thank you Netgalley for the chance to read early

I really enjoyed Hush Hush, the first in Mel Sherratt’s Grace Allendale series, so was more than happy to receive the offer to read the follow up. I wasn’t disappointed. I downloaded last night and finished this afternoon - only putting my kindle because I had to sleep.
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There are a few familiar characters still hanging around two years on, and the plot follows on very nicely from the previous book.
I felt both family’s pain, being the mother of a teenager (we don’t always know what our kids are up to) and the perfectly described breakdown of friendships between both girls and their mothers added to the poignancy of the storyline. How can you ever get over a child’s death at the hands of another?
A few characters were thrown in the mix as possible culprits before Grace got to the bottom of what turned out to be a harrowing case, but a deserved ending for those involved

Looking forward to the next instalment in the Grace Allendale series.
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DS Grace Allendale is on the case of a mugging gone terribly wrong, one that leaves a young woman dead. But the more she investigates the more she learns about the victim, Erin, and that someone had a reason to want her dead. Suddenly this random mugging seems anything but and begins to bear striking similarities to a case Grace investigated years ago