She thought she knew her father. But what she doesn’t know could fill a morgue… the boys in the photos only to find out that three of the seven have committed suicide…
Tracing the clues from Surrey to Santa Monica, Chrissy unearths disturbing ties between her father’s work as a financier and the victims. As each new connection raises more sinister questions about her family, she fears she should’ve left the secrets buried with the dead.
Will Chrissy put the past to rest, or will the sins of the father destroy her?
Tin Men is the suspenseful first book in the Chrissy Livingstone thriller series. If you like courageous heroines, dark family secrets, and complex investigations, you’ll love Linda Coles’s engrossing novel.
Read Tin Men to expose a deadly lie today!
Other books by Linda Coles:
DS Amanda Lacey and DC Jack Rutherford
1 The Controller
2 Hot to Kill
3 The Hunted
4 Dark Service
5 One Last Hit
DC Jack Rutherford (solo)
1 Hey You, Pretty Face
more
Just finished…
Excellent suspense novel. Chrissy Livingston-great character.
the webs we weave, eh? jumping to conclusions can be disasterous. enjoyed the read.
I enjoyed the plot and the characters, mostly like able!
“Tin Men” by Linda Coles is an excellent book that keeps readers guessing. Readers meet Chrissy Livingstone, a 41 year old ex-M15 English government agent, and follow her to her sister Julie’s house because their father, Gerald Baker, has just died and her sister has brought their mother to her house to console her. Their mother, Sandra Baker, tells them to plan the funeral and she will attend. Readers think their mother is too distraught to help her daughters plan the funeral. When Chrissy’s husband Adam is asked to pick up all the flowers that had been delivered from friends and acquaintances, he finds an envelope with “Thief” written on it. Inside is a note that says, ‘I’ll not let you rest until I have back what is rightfully mine”. He and Chrissy know her father was a financial consultant and think that perhaps one of his clients is angry because he lost some of the money that he gave Gerald Baker to invest. After the funeral, Chrissy sees a strange man who stares at her, gets into his car and then drives away. When she and her sister help their mother go through their father’s things and decide what goes to charity and what will be thrown into the trash, the sisters go into the room their father had never let them go into, their father’s study. Chrissy finds a shelf of diaries belonging to her father. When she picks one up to browse through, their mother, who had been resting, gets very angry and tells them they do not belong in their father’s study and sends them home. Chrissy returns another day to help her mother go through her father’s things and her mother tells her to clean out her father’s shed in the garden. In the shed she finds a tin box containing old photos of seven boys around junior high school age. She wonders what their father had to do with the boys and copies the photos onto her phone. She decides to find out more about the boys and notices they are all wearing ties from the same school. On her computer she finds some newspaper articles telling about the school and a picture of a boys’ team. She recognizes one of the boys from the pictures her father had in the tin can. Pretending to be from a magazine, she meets with the retired headmaster to find out the names of the boys. He appears very upset and tells her most of their names but nothing more. When she leaves, he thinks, “Not again”. She researches the names on her computer and finds that two of boys, now grown men, had committed suicide. Readers wonder why the men had committed suicide and whether Gerald Baker had anything to do with their suicides. Readers follow Chrissy on her journey to find out if her father did anything to the boys to later make them commit suicide. “Tin Men” is an intriguing mystery that readers will not be able to put down to its very end.
Many twists
Makes you feel like you are solving the case along with the main character. Kept my attention.
Family drama indeed.
When Chrissy’s father suddenly passes away, she’s forced to go home and reunite with her family. At the funeral, she sees a strange man, one who doesn’t belong. At first, she’s able to brush away the sight of him until she finds a secret tin of her father’s in the shed. Inside there are old pictures. Seven boys. And a secret that tied her father to all of them.
Intense and compelling. As Chrissy dove to the bottom of secret after secret, I couldn’t stop listening. I literally binged this story in about four hours. (It’s an 8+ hour audiobook, but I also listen to narrator speed at 2.35x). Chrissy herself was a very likeable character. She was resourceful and determined. Even when she hit dead ends, she figured out new ways to reap the information she needed.
The more Chrissy learned about her father, the more she questioned if she really knew her parents at all. I found that aspect of the book to be an interesting insight because it leaves the question how well do we know any of those close to us?
Narration was perfect for the story.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
Too many lies, too many secrets leading to the death of several people that are connected since their teens leaving behind broken families. The main character – Chrissy – discovers that her family life was not so perfect after her father dies and she finds several photos inside a tin box. She herself has many details of her past life hidden from her husband and family and she discovers through the difficult way that is better to have everything in the open, no secrets, avoiding therefore vengeance, lack of trust and hurt. Most enjoyful reading !
Good read, but not quite a 5-star.
Not what you would expect
great book.. loved t… sure l kept me reading!
Interesting title that eventually makes sense. Good unexpected twists and characters with substance. The plot keeps moving right along.
This was a true page-turner, hard to put down. I read it in record time! Well thought-out and written. Let’s have more of these! Thanks.
Outstanding mystery.
This was a good read for me. I had not predicted what was coming so the book had some surprise and unusual twists to its plot.
Great read
This is one of my favorite books of this year, maybe my favorite. The characters are interesting, well-drawn and original, and the plot is creative, original and a thing of its own.
Tin Men- I enjoyed the novel very much; it was a mystery that you could never figure out..sometimes after someone dies you find out old secrets that you could never imagined…this is one.
Delighted to find (for me) a new author. A really good suspenseful read and great characters. Have purchased another book