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Love Me Not: DI Helen Grace 7 Hardcover – 17 May 2017

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A desperate young woman runs through the storm. She hares up the path, hammering desperately on the front door, crying for help. The startled owner opens the door, ushers her inside, promising her whatever assistance she needs. This fateful decision will be his last. He should never have opened the door . . .

A middle aged couple are found brutally murdered in their ransacked suburban house. Helen Grace, now back at Southampton Central following her release from prison, is first on the scene. The crime is baffling, hideous, cruel, but before Helen can process the evidence, another double murder is reported - identical in almost every way to the first. What follows is the darkest, most dangerous night of Helen's life as a sequence of brutal home invasions takes place. By sunrise eight people will be dead and Helen may well be the ninth as she finds herself locked on a collision course with a pair of rampaging spree killers. Is there method in their madness? Or are they selecting their victims at random? It falls to Helen to wrestle with these questions - only by answering them can she end the bloodshed.

A break neck thriller which takes place in real time over 24 hours, this is the sharpest, most adrenliased Helen Grace thriller yet.

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Publisher : Michael Joseph; 1st edition (17 May 2017)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0718183851
ISBN-13 : 978-0718183851
Dimensions : 16.18 x 3.2 x 24.05 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 327,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 18,433 in Murder Thrillers
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Detective Inspector Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years (Jeffery Deaver)

Page-turningly chilling (The Times)

DI Helen Grace is a genuinely fresh heroine ... Arlidge weaves together a tapestry that chills to the bone (Daily Mail)

This is going to be as big as Jo Nesbo (Judy Finnigan)

Taut, fast-paced, truly excellent (Sun)

One of the best new series detectives . . . Mesmerizing! (Lisa Gardner)

M. J. Arlidge has created a genuinely fresh heroine in DI Helen Grace (Daily Mail)

Chilling stuff (Fabulist)

A chilling read (My Weekly)

A grisly, gripping thriller (Sunday Mirror)

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The seventh DI Helen Grace thriller form one of the UK's most exciting thriller writers.

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So boring

Reviewed in Australia on 21 July 2017

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I once liked this series. But this was just groan worthy in its plodding story and visual imagery. Yup get it leather and guns.
Did Arlidge always lack depth and colour?

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 18 June 2017

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Love all these books, and this one did not disappoint.

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Fantastic Crime Thriller

Reviewed in Australia on 11 October 2017

Another fabulous book from this talented Author. I’m so glad that I discovered this series back in 2014, and I’ve loved all seven of the books. ‘Love Me Not’ has a tense and gripping plot, with a definite edge to it. It’s definitely one of those books you’re not going to want to put down once you’ve started it.
Detective Inspector Helen Grace has found life a little more difficult since she got out of prison, especially trying to trust everyone on her team again. It’s quite a shock for her when she’s out for a morning ride and she comes across a woman dying in the middle of the road. Going by the woman’s injuries, there a very violent individual out there. However it quickly becomes apparent there is two people the police are trying to capture. It’s hard for Helen and her team to work out if the perpetrators are killing randomly, or if they have a goal in mind. Trouble is the bodies are mounting up quite quickly. If you haven’t read one of M.J. Arlidge’s books, and you enjoy Crime Thrillers, then they are certainly worth adding to your reading list. Easily worth the 5/5 Star rating.

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Really enjoyable read.

Reviewed in Australia on 28 June 2017

Love me not by mj Arlidge.
She Loves Me A woman's body lies in the road. At first it looks like a tragic accident. But when Helen Grace arrives on the scene it's clear she's looking at a coldblooded killing. But why would anyone target a much loved wife and mother? She Loves Me Not Across town, a shopkeeper is killed while his customers are left unharmed. But what lies behind the killer's choices? She Loves Me Who lives? Who dies? Who's next? The clock is ticking. She Loves Me Not If Helen can't solve this deadly puzzle then more blood will be shed. But any mistake and it might be her own ...
I'm really enjoying mj books. I loved the story and the characters. Apart from the villians. They were evil. I really wanted Helen and her team to get them. I liked the ending too. I hope there is more to come from Helen and her team. 5*. Highly recommended. Thanks netgalley and penguin books.

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Another fabulous instalment

Reviewed in Australia on 18 July 2017

Helen Grace is back, out of prison and back on the job. Adjusting to life on the outside isn't easy and Helen finds herself not trusting herself or others as she did before and that has ramifications in this case, unfortunately.

I have always liked the way that Helen Grace is a kick-ass police officer but she is a very flawed human being. This book, more than any of the previous ones, brings that aspect of things into sharp relief.

This is a tightly told tale of a couple of disenfranchised kids with nothing to lose, who go on a killing spree. What will the body count be before Helen can track them down? And which one of her colleagues can she really trust?

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Jayne Turner

Would absolutely recommend.

Reviewed in Australia on 3 February 2018

I absolutely love this series. I started with the middle book (accidentally) and was hooked by the fifth page. I cannot wait for the next in the series.

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Spicewalker

Love this series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2017

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I happened upon this series quite by chance. I was looking for something to read. It was set in Southampton. I have a depot in Southampton which I was about to visit. It fetl like Kismet. Or something. It was pretty fluffing fortuitous if nothing else because by choosing books by depot locations I stumbled upon a cracker of a series, to which this latest book, Love Me Not, is a more than worthy addition.

Different in pacing than the previous Helen Grace books it is set over a period of twenty-four hours. Yes just twenty-four hours in which a killer or killers set out to cause maxium carnage to a range of victims who seem to have little in common and certainly no logical reason to be on anyone’s hit list. So is it a case of random targeting or something more sinister. This is what Helen and her team have to find out.

Now it is hard to say too much about the plotting without dropping in spoilers for previous books which I don’t want to do if you haven’t read any of them. Yes, technically this can be read as a standalone as it is a one off case with no links, victim or perpetrator wise, to previous stories. However there are heavy spoilers regarding the previous two books so at least read Little Boy Blue and Hide and Seek before embarking on this one. But why stop there. Do yourself a favour and read them all. You won’t regret it.

What I will say is that there is an element of tension and mistrust within the team at present which means that they are not as cohesive a unit as they could be. Helen is smarting and resentful towards certain members of the team and this does impact upon them all with very serious repercussions. As for the killers? Well they are not exactly merciless but they certainly have a mission which they will not deviate from but you need to read to understand what that is. It will probably surprise you as you start to realise the truth and you’ll need to keep a very open mind if you think you can call this any earlier than probably 65-70% through the story.

Due to the timeline and structuring of the book, the pacing is fast, probably faster than in previous books even. This is driven on by Arlidge’s consistent use of short, punchy chapters and sparing and yet authentic dialogue. Physical descriptions of both people and setting are strong and really add to the book overall. People may be a little surprised or maybe even upset that many of the things that make Helen well, Helen, are not present in this story but given the timing and what she has been through, how she is portrayed and who she is this time is pitched perfectly in my humble opinion. Perhaps given time we will see more of the old Helen. She is still ably supported by Charlie Brooks, one of the few on her team she still trusts but even this pairing is feeling the strain a little. It adds a layer of conflict that Helen doesn’t really need and keeps things on a knife edge.

I really enjoyed this book. It got me hooked from the very first chapter and I galloped along with the story, eating up page after page until I had finished. Literally a one sitting kind of a book. Started at 19:00 finished at 01:00. There was no way I was walking away from it until I had reached the conclusion. I can’t believe this was book seven. I can’t believe we are going to have to wait forever (well it will feel like it) for the next book in the series. I’m missing Helen already.

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I thoroughly enjoyed the previous six books in this series and couldn't ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2017

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I thoroughly enjoyed the previous six books in this series and couldn't wait to read the next 'Helen Grace' tale. I have to say that I found this latest outing a real let-down - especially waiting as we all were to see how this uber detective would fare after leaving prison. The book is not nearly as well-written as previous volumes in the series; is clichéd and two-dimensional. I actually believe it was either dashed off in a hurry (there are a number of typos and grammatical errors) or was even ghost-written by somebody else. A real let-down and, by the end, I didn't really care whether Helen lived or died or whether she was back on track or lying in a ditch. Hugely disappointing.

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Jacob Collins

Riveting!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2020

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Love Me Not by M.J. Arlidge takes place over a single day. A shocking series of crimes are about to take place in Southampton, and Helen Grace is on the hunt for a pair of terrifying killers. They kill without mercy and to them, it seems almost like a game. Helen and her team don’t have any idea how long this killing spree will last and how it’ll end. It becomes a race against time to track their suspects down before it is too late.

Whenever I pick up a book by M.J. Arlidge, I know that I’m going to race through it. He writes with urgency, and you can feel the tension on every single page as Helen races to find the killers. The killers in this book are terrifying, when we first meet them, they gave me chills, and I had to keep reading. I was rooting for Helen to find out who they were and bring them to justice. I have to admit that they did remind me of Bonnie and Clyde and there are a few references to them in this book.

Helen feels a lot more detached from the rest of her team in this book. I think before you read this book, it will definitely help to read the previous book, Hide and Seek, but it still works well as a stand-alone. You can see that she feels very much on her own, and she struggles to reconnect with her old friends. It’s difficult to talk further about the plot here without giving too much away and I don’t want to spoil it for you.

I always find at the end of each chapter in any of the books in this series; I’m always eager to read the next making M.J. Arlidge’s books very difficult to put down. Short pacy chapters keep the pace flying forward. The writing grabs you without any effort and pulls you straight into an action-packed read.

After finishing this book, it does make me wonder how Helen will feel towards her team in the future books on the series. I can understand why she is feeling the way she is, but it is also clear that her old friends are desperate to win back her approval and friendship. I think this may take time, but I hope that they will be able to get along again.

Love Me Not is another brilliant addition to this series, and I am looking forward to catching up on the next book. If you start reading this book, or any books in this series, make sure you have a lot of free time on your hands because you will want to get to the end as soon as possible. Riveting stuff!

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Tanith Panic

Don't gobble up this book too fast

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2017

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I really should complain about this book. I bought it to last me for at least a fortnight. I gobbled it up in two evenings! It does have some violent scenes but no more than the average crime writer describes, but this is offset by the characterisation of Helen and her team. I even had some sympathy for the pushy reporter Emilia this time, but I'm not telling you why here. I'd prefer you to buy it and enjoy a good read. But, as I warned previously, ration yourself or you'll have finished before you realise it.

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Mdealwis

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2017

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This is the 7th installment in the Helen Grace Series and like the others in this series, it doesnt disappoint. This time the story is set over 24 hour

It's 9 months after D I Helen Grace is out of prison. The story starts when a woman is killed when she stops her car when she meets a woman on the road. Only to be gunned down, and her car is taken. Then a chemist owner at the local shopping centre is shot dead but the customer and her baby is left unharmed.

D I Helen Grace is set to investigate and find links to both murders. When she finds out who one of the killers are Jason Swift. Helen thinks that he is leading the killings. Until they find the car abandoned and his body is found in the boot of the car. Who is the other killer?

This is not as gritty as the other in the series. But this is an excellent tense, fast, paced thriller, with lots of action thrown in. I didn't want this to end. Excellent.

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