BOOKS
What Doesn’t Break Us
Take a sip and enter the world of the dead…
As the station prepares to close down for good, DI Georgie Strachan is running out of time to find out what is really going on in Burrowhead and put a stop to it. A deadly drug appears in the community, best consumed with the blood of a freshly slaughtered animal. But what does this have to do with the deaths and suicides? And who is responsible for supplying it?
As rituals and threats reach a frantic high, no one wants to speak out.
Reviews & Press
“Helen Sedgwick has created a world which is fully realised, and that is in no small part due to the attention to detail & clarity of thought behind the writing. She allows characters to shift and change, to be both villain and hero and everything in between… The Burrowhead trilogy brings something fresh and exciting to crime fiction, a genre that is all too often home to cliches and stereotypes. The books could be described as black magic realism” ~ SNACK magazine
“What Doesn’t Break Us and the Burrowhead trilogy as a whole hold up a mirror to modern Britain, but a warped, blotched & distempered mirror, one that’s perfectly suited to showing us our own self-created identity, highlighting not only the parts of the story we choose to tell but those we’d rather leave out.” ~ BlueBookBalloon
“Wow, what a stunning and chilling conclusion to the Burrowhead trilogy. This series is so extremely well written that it is now placed in my best Scottish fiction of all time category.” ~ Books by Bindu
“A contemporary thriller with a dark centre… a conclusion worthy of the superb plot.” ~ Northern Times
“Another triumph. A masterful blend of crime and psychological suspense, with a hint of the supernatural for added chill… An immersive, haunting read.”
Mary Paulson-Ellis
“Sedgwick sustains a suspenseful atmosphere of psychological and supernatural unease that will have you glancing nervously over your shoulder.”
Herald
“A contemporary thriller with a dark centre… a conclusion worthy of the superb plot.”
Northern Times
“Sedgwick explores sinister rituals and missing souls in this unputdownable crime novel.”
Scottish Book Trust
“Unputdownable. When the Dead Come Calling tracks the toxin which seeped into a village. If you read closer you will see who the ‘key workers’ are. Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now! It’s an incredible book! READ IT.”
Lemn Sissay
“Helen’s writing is unnerving, her characters flawed but real, and the story is haunting, captivating… supernatural components breathe through her words feeding the goosebumps that plague the reader. Essentially this is a perfect combination of elements to make an epic tale that I will remember for a very long time to come! “
Books by Bindu
“A sharply observed story for these anxious, post-Brexit times.””
Scotland on Sunday