📖 Book Description
A Detective Geldard Mystery
A skeleton tied to a chair.
A witness whose story unravels.
A killer who’s not finished yet.Detective Greg Geldard is still reeling from a blazing row with his partner Chris when the call comes. A body in a derelict farmhouse outside the quiet Norfolk village of Themelthorpe. Nothing in twenty-five years of policing has prepared Geldard for this.
A headless skeleton bound at the wrists and ankles.
And facing it, a tripod.
A video camera pointing straight at the remains.The only witness is a hitchhiker whose story falls apart the moment Geldard starts asking questions…
But one thing is clear: someone wanted this woman’s death to be seen.
And someone may still be watching.Because somewhere on the Norfolk Broads, another woman is already tied to a chair. Waiting for her turn in front of the camera. She has days if she’s lucky. Hours if she’s not.
📚 Publication Details
AUTHOR: Heather Peck
BOOK TITLE: Killing on the Norfolk Broads
SERIES: Detective Geldard Mysteries
PUBLICATION DATE: 22 September 2026
EDITION REVIEWED: Digital Edition
ISBN/ASIN: 9781805738428
PAGES: 279
PUBLISHER: Joffe Books
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✍️ About the Author
Heather Peck
Award-winning author Heather Peck has enjoyed a varied life. She has been both farmer and agricultural policy adviser, volunteer covid vaccinator and NHS Trust Chair. She bred sheep and alpacas, reared calves, broke ploughs, represented the UK in international negotiations, specialised in emergency response from Chernobyl to bird flu, managed controls over pesticides and GM crops, saw legislation through Parliament and got paid to eat Kit Kats while on secondment to Nestle Rowntree.
She is author of the very popular DCI Geldard Norfolk Mysteries and her standalone thriller ‘Milestones’ won the PageTurner Book Award for best crime novel in 2024. She lives in Norfolk with her partner Gary, two dogs and two cats.
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👩🏻💻 My Review
Book Ten Was Only the Beginning…
This is the tenth book in the Detective Geldard Mysteries, but my first book by Heather Peck and my first introduction to DCI Greg Geldard and his team.
Heather Peck does a brilliant job of welcoming a new reader into an already well-established series. Geldard is surrounded by a sizeable team, including his soon-to-be wife Chris, but despite meeting everyone for the first time, I never struggled to remember who was who or felt overwhelmed by the number of people involved.
Alongside the police investigation, there are glimpses into Greg and Chris’s life away from work, where things aren’t running quite as smoothly. It was obvious there was history between them from the previous books, but I never felt I was missing anything by not knowing it. There was everything I needed to understand where they were now, with their personal story remaining very much in the background and adding another layer to the characters without ever taking over from the investigation.
The case itself was very cleverly plotted and I was gripped by the progress being made. I really enjoyed being taken along with the team as they worked through the evidence and followed each new development. Everything was clearly explained without slowing the story down, and I felt completely involved in the investigation, working things out alongside them and needing to know how everything was going to come together.
The story moves at a fast pace and apparently so did my reading! I couldn’t read quickly enough because I just wanted to know what happened next. Unfortunately, life and phone calls kept getting in the way and I genuinely reached the point where I considered driving somewhere, locking myself in the car without my phone and enjoying the peace until I’d finished the book! 😂
What impressed me most was how effortlessly this worked as a standalone story. I never found myself wondering what I’d missed or wishing I’d started at the beginning. There was enough background woven naturally into the story for me to understand the characters, their relationships and their places within the team without taking anything away from the investigation happening now.
And that’s where I encountered a slight problem… I didn’t need to know what had happened in the previous nine books. I wanted to know. I wanted to go back and get to know the whole team properly and discover everything that had brought them to where I found them in this book.
So I finished my review copy and bought the entire series for my Kindle.
All ten books.
I think it’s safe to say Heather Peck has gained a new reader! 😂📚
👩🏻💻 MoMoBookDiary (2026)
DISCLOSURE: I received a review copy of this book from Zooloo’s Book Tours and NetGalley.
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MoMoBookDiary Index
- Author
- Heather Peck
- Title
- Killing on the Norfolk Broads
- Series
- DCI Geldard Mystery / Detective Geldard Mysteries
- Publisher
- Joffe Books
- Genre
- Crime Thriller
- Police Procedural
- Setting
- Norfolk, England, UK
- Source
- Book Tour – Zooloo’s Book Tours
- NetGalley
- Date Read
- 19-20 September 2026
- Review Shared
- Content Notes
- tbc
- Archive Checked
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