Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Fast, Free and Flying

SERIES: County Durham Quad #6

AUTHOR: Jude Tresswell

PUBLISHER: self-published

LENGTH: 159 pages

RELEASE DATE: December 9, 2020

BLURB:

Drones lie at the heart of this mystery facing Mike, Ross, Raith and Phil, four men who live together in North East England.

A spate of art-related burglaries and a series of horrific kidnaps have occurred. The freedom of the quad, and that of Nick, their special friend, is threatened by involvement in both cases. They are suspected of one and Mike is a victim of the other. The officer in charge is the quad’s old enemy, Detective Chief Inspector Fortune. Should the quad set aside their distrust and tell him what they know?

Meanwhile, Nick has issues of his own to consider. Compromises are needed, but how many?

This is the sixth tale in the County Durham Quad series. Background is included to aid new readers.

REVIEW:

These boys can not stay out of trouble. Have mercy. Even when they are innocently doing something on their own, they end up in the middle of investigations, or kidnapped or something. In this case, all the above. Each book has had its own ups and downs as they all try to deal with what has happened, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen Mike really lose it. In spite of all he’s been through.

Again, the boys are up to their eyeballs in trouble. Raith has a drone that he loves playing with. Unfortunately, what they don’t know are thieves are using a drone to burgle houses and now Raith is a suspect. And because Nick and Ross deal with art and such, they are suspects as well because it could be forgeries or fencing….who knows. Phil is having his own worries, and now Mike gets kidnapped for a whole other reason. And all they know is they can’t let the cops in on much of it because they are all bigoted against Mike and his quad.

I like how this one was more technological. The other ones are up to date, don’t get me wrong. But the guys live in kind of a backwater town where you don’t expect a lot of traffic. Truthfully, they get a lot more than expected because of all they offer, but this one got really technical with the drones being involved. And the IT stuff, etc. So it was nice to see progression in the form of today’s technology. And leave it to Raith to be the one to have the most fun with it. Lol. 

But I love the mystery in it again. I love seeing them sink their teeth in the mystery, whether they want to or not. But the hard part in this mystery, was seeing what Mike went through and what he was willing to give up. If you’ve kept up with this series, Mike has been through it. And will do anything he possibly can to make sure the others are safe and secure, even at the expense of himself. But this one threw Mike for a loop, and with all the crap he’s been through, I’d have figured it would have been something else. But it’s hard on him and dealing with everything that’s coming on them, is making it much worse. And it’s been weird to see the quad almost to a point of…….crumbling, perhaps? 

It’s a great mystery though. The whole series is. Yes, it’s a poly story and you need to get past that to get to the meat of the story. Because it’s a mystery you can’t put down. I love it. I’ve really enjoyed this series. And glad to see the boys still going strong together.

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