Secure A Copy Run For Home (Lorraine Hunt, #1) Developed By Sheila Quigley Provided As Audio Book

adored this book. Was a total blast from start to finish, I honestly could NOT put it down, Hope it get made into a drama/film sometime soon ! Easy to read didn't take too much concentration to follow the rather predictable plot.
Characters rather thin and blended into one another, Dumbed down as if to prove that council estate folk can all not speak without swearing, At times thought i was reading a script from Grange Hill,: a man runs for his life wounded, exhausted, hunted remorselessly by a woman assassin know only as The Headhunter.


: sixteenyearold Kerry Lumsdon runs across the same terrain, She runs to win and runs to forget,

When a headless body is found in the wastelands of the Seahills Estate, Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate.
But then a more urgent case lands on her desk when Kerrys sister, Claire, is violently kidnapped.


Headstrong, willful, and wary of police, Kerry sets out on a frantic search for Claire.
But her hunt takes her to a violent underworld, a sixteenyearold murder and, finally, to secrets about her own past her mother hoped shed never have to face.


And all the time, for Claire, the clock is ticking, . . Actually based in the North East of England where I live, I can actually relate to the characters,
Such a good book Nice story, intriguing and captivating to read for the average person,

The use of foul language, dialect and too much swearing plummeted it to a horrible onestar on a scale of onetofive.


Not for me, Foul language and dialect just detracted me from the story, This is one of the best books i've read in ages, it kept u in suspense I love the Lorraine Hunt series, set in the North East of England where I live which just adds to the enjoyment of reading it.
Sheila captures everything about the area and twinned with a great storyline this makes a brilliant read.
Would recommend all Sheila Quigley books! What I liked most about Run For Home is that it wasn't set in some posh little village with a manor house and an overly suspicious butler.
The settings were everyday and the characters were down to earth and believable, I could relate to it, The dialogue in this respect was also believable, I liked the fact that it focused not just around the police but around a family, There were nice touches of humour that worked well as the characters interacted together,

A Great novel and a very enjoyable read,
Not bad for the first one in the series, There were several different story threads and I did get a little bit confused at times as there are lots of characters to keep track of.


The story revolves around the Lumsden family, Vanessa an alcoholic and her six kids, Robbie being the eldest followed by Kerry who's an excellent runner, Darren, Claire, Suzy and Emma.
Robbie's never been able to hold down a job and he basically keeps the family going by the careful use of the local shoplifters.


Robbie's dad disappeared when he was very little, and Robbie is plagued by knightmares of someone pointing a gun at his head.


The problems begin when Claire goes missing and a headless body one of six is found which has been buried foryears, Vanessa's reaction to the body is full blown panic attack, as she knows who the body belongs to the past is resurfacing.


What happens to Claire is very disturbing, but strangely gripping as you hope she can find a way out of her terrible situation.


In the midst of all this you have the police, Lorraine Hunt is in charge for the search for Claire while also trying to get to the bottom of the headless bodies.
She's also looking for her husband who's MIA the scene in the gaybar was fantastic,

This book is set in the north of England so the dialogue could be tricky for some, I liked it and have already ordered the next in the series.
Sheila Quigley was recommended to me by a friend, This was the first book of hers that i read, It follows policewoman Lorraine Hunt and the residents of the Seahills Estate, Run for home follows Kerry Lumsdon and her family as the past comes back to haunt them.
I loved the book and couldn't wait to read book, I bought this book when the author Sheila Quigley did a booksigning in my local Waterstones and I am so glad I discovered this gem of a novel.
The plot is elaborately split between various characters, all of whom are fully explored and combine together to create an exciting, dynamic storyline.
As somebody from the North East of England where the book is set, I cannot recommend it enough! What I liked most were the characters I ended up feeling as if I knew them each one of the many many characters.
Sheila Quigley's Run for Home was the Q in my AZ of authors, I'd never heard of the author, but the plot sounded intriguing so I thought I'd check it out.

To start with, we meet Kerry Lumsdon a sixteen year old girl, who is training to be a professional athlete, she lives on a council estate with her alcoholic mother and a variety of brothers and sisters from different fathers.

Kerry is not a very sympathetic character, The first time we meet her she is stealing milk from the doorstep of a blind old lady, before chucking the empty bottle over into her garden to smash.
She has a go at anyone and everyone for no particular reason, It seemed a bit unrealistic to me and I couldn't care less what happened to her,
The other characters seemed to be a bit soapish, With six children, and all their friends it's hard to keep track of everyone, The police searching for Kerry's missing sister Claire and mainly detached from this, but we constantly hear their thoughts about how much they fancy each other.
I just wish they'd stick to their job, if I'm honest, Lorraine, the central police figure is a likeable character, Again, she has unnecessary family introduced just to add to the confusion, but you feel on her side.
She has a lot on her plate, As well as searching for Kerry's sister, she also has headless bodies turning up left, right and centre.
Despite being a strong police woman, she seems a bit feeble in her personal life, I wanted to give the character a shake of the shoulders and tell her to pull herself together.

One thing I did love about this book was the way Sheila Quigley wrote dialogue, It's set in Sunderland, and she writes her characters with an accent, I could hear their speech very clearly in my head, which I love, It does bring the characters to life more, even if there were too many of them,
Overall, an okay book, but I probably wouldn't read another of hers, There were good points and bad points, but it was a bit too melodramatic for me, I enjoyed it and for a first book it was excellent, A little far fetched but hey, . . it had a happy ending so pleased me, This is a brilliant book, I loved the Lumsdon family and all of their past has come back to haunt them in this book.
It's definitely worth a read, A pageturner of Olympic proportions, Fastpaced and very enjoyable. Not much to say about this other than it's a good entertaining read, As I think I've said before about this author, her writing style reminds me of Martina Cole but with a lot less aggression amp violence though still with quite a lot of swearing so if you don't like to see the "F" word in print it's not a book for you! though unlike Cole's characters Quigley's are likeable.
A good read amp a series I continue to follow, I had never read or heard of Sheila Quigley until it was recommended to me, I brought the first book as, although debuts are not always the authors best, they certainly give you a feel for the sort of writer they are.


This book I eventually got round to, and I have to say I am very pleased that I did.
The story starts by the reader meeting the Lumsdon family, The main characters seem to be the eldest daughter Kerry, but we also meet all the brothers and sisters, as well as their mother.


When a body is found on the infamous Seahills Estate Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt joins the story.
In addition to the body, Kerry's younger sister Claire goes missing and pretty soon Lorraine is trying to solve both crimes.


The writing and characters I thought were great, Before reading this book I had read other reviews and found that some readers didn't like the use of the word "yer".
I was a little baffled by this as I take it as a way of the author putting across the kind of characters in the story.
I found it was no different to reading books where characters have a cockney accent and letters are frequently missing from words used.


I liked character of Lorraine but found it a little harder to warm to Kerry having said that, I still enjoyed the book a great deal.
The crime element of the story covers the murky world of kidnap and as the story came towards the end, it sped up and we reached what I thought was a pretty good ending.


I would probably say that as a debut this is a cracking book, but I am also guessing that like many authors her work has got better the more she has written.
I have already ordered book two in the series and look forward to reading the next one.
Got aboutpages in to this and then decided to give up, There were way too many characters introduced in a short period of time to be able to make sense of who they all were.
The mother has six six!!! children, they have friends, there's a police officer, there's neighbours, there's the bad people.
I couldn't keep them all straight, The dialogue was with the accents the characters have, but they all talked exactly the same way ex.
saying "our Claire" when referring to a character, The plot wasn't enough to keep me going so I'm moving on to the next book! couldnt put this book down what a great read.
This modern day crime series is a gritty look at how police endeavour to keep law and order on a council area near Sunderland, in England, where unemployment is rocketing and prospects are few.


Crimes range from the usual breakins and car thefts, to drugs but that's the background and in the foreground we get a personal case to bring us closer to some of the characters,

which involves a murder.


Nice to see a female police officer in charge, We also get a good look at some local families, who are only trying to survive and lead decent lives on minimal welfare.
For instance a man who rents a house from the council, but illegally sublets it to other families at a profit, reckons that he is doing everyone a favour because the people he is housing do not qualify for council housing.
Men know the goods they buy in the pub are stolen, but they don't see any other way to afford Christmas presents.


I think what stops this series from being great, is that there is a total immersion in the atmosphere.
While a Council estate series is itself a contrast with many English crime novels, there is little or no contrast within each book.
Therefore they all get to feel the same, .