Broken Wings by Barry N Rainsford

Broken Wings

 by Barry N Rainsford



Broken Wings by Barry N Rainsford

published on 6th February 2026 by Sleeping Dogs.

My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to 

Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour





Synopsis

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a remote North  Yorkshire barn DI Zara Fisher is called back before she is ready. Haunted by her own past and exiled to an anger management group back to duty for“difficult” officers, she’s forced to share therapy with three equally broken colleagues. But when their so-called routine cases begin to echo one another, they uncover a web of secrets stretching from the Dales to darkened corridors of power.

Broken Wings is a darkly humorous, rain-lashed thriller about guilt, obsession, and the dangerous comforts of denial.



My Thoughts 


I was initially drawn to Broken Wings due to its setting in Yorkshire and being a “Yorkshire Lass” anything Yorkshire always intrigues me.

However, once I got into the book, and to e honest it took me a while I was intrigued about the idea of taking four “Broken “ members of the police force and putting them in a counselling session together and their anger, frustrations and ultimately discussions put them in a situation where they are able to look at the so called suicides from a different angle and uncover the truth behind them all.

The characters Barry has created are strong  and you feel as though you get to know them as they work together to solve the sinister happenings in the Yorkshire Dales. The  connecting thread, which I won’t reveal for obvious reasons, running through the book is a clever one and ,I don’t know about you,  I find myself often wondering where do writers get these new ideas from that, as far as I am aware, have never been used before in a book.

Barry N Rainsford is definitely a writer to watch out for and as Broken Wings is the first book in the North Yorkshire Crime Thriller series I’m awaiting the next instalment “Keeper of Souls” with anticipation .



About Barry




After teaching in inner-city schools in the West Midlands, I now live and write in North Yorkshire. My crime novels explore the unheard voices of victims of crime. All the Dead Men Lie is a murder mystery come political thriller set during the 1984 Miners’ Strike that plays out its murders against the backdrop of the social conflict of that time. Hollow: Who Put Bella in the Wych-Elm? is a fictionalised telling of a still unsolved murder mystery from the 1940s based on research into police files and local history and folk-memory.





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