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It Never Rains is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability. 

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It Never Rains by Tony Bassett


Genre: Crime fiction

Tour Dates: 2nd - 6th November 2024

Publication Date: 10th September 2024

Estimated Page Count: 284

Standalone 6th Book in the Detectives Roy and Roscoe series

Formats available: Epub and UK paperbacks

Types of post available: Reviews, guest posts, extracts and Q&As

Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DGLRJLVZ/

It never rains but it pours…


When a ruthless gang burgles the home of a Premier League football player, DCI Gavin Roscoe and DS Sunita Roy suddenly have a murder and a kidnap on their hands.


The footballer’s stepson, Marcel, is taken from the palatial property whilst it is being ransacked, and his bodyguard is shot, stone cold dead.


To help them with their task, DI Parkes from the National Crime Agency’s Kidnap Unit joins the investigation but he has very different ideas about how the operation should be run.


While rain lashes the surrounding countryside, tempers rise, as do the flood waters.


Can the police track down this dangerous gang, unmask its malevolent ringleader, and reunite the boy with his family before it’s too late?


IT NEVER RAINS is the sixth book in the detectives Roy and Roscoe crime fiction series by Tony Bassett.

About Tony Bassett


Tony Bassett is a former journalist who worked on regional and national newspapers in Britain for more than 40 years.

He mainly reported on crime, show business, human interest and consumer topics. Now retired, he writes crime fiction.

Tony is best known for his series of novels set in the West Midlands.

They feature Detective Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe, an experienced detective and family man, and his sergeant, law graduate and resourceful problem-solver Sunita Roy.

The fifth book in the series, Heir To Murder, was judged first in the Mystery and Suspense (Police Procedurals) category in the American Fiction Awards in June 2024.

The novel concerns a peer of the realm’s son found axed to death after a row over loud music. Two years earlier, his older brother mysteriously disappeared while hiking in Spain.

Here is the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPFNJNQJ

The series is published by The Book Folks, an independent London publisher specialising in crime fiction.

Other books in the series (in order) are: Murder On Oxford Lane, The Crossbow Stalker, Murder Of A Doctor and Out for Revenge.

His stand-alone thriller Seat 97, about a man shot dead at a London concert hall, has also been published by The Book Folks.

Two further works (the crime novel Smile Of The Stowaway and the spy novel The Lazarus Charter) were published by The Conrad Press.

Tony first developed a love of writing at the age of nine when he produced a junior school magazine.

A few years later, his local vicar in Tunbridge Wells staged his play about the Biblical story of Naboth's Vineyard.

At Hull University, Tony was judged Time-Life Magazine student journalist of the year in 1971.

Tony, who has five grown-up children, is a Life Member of the National Union of Journalists. He lives in South-East London with his partner Lin


​Follow Tony Bassett


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tony.bassett.92505

Twitter/X: https://x.com/tonybassett1

Instagram: tonybassettauthor


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Blog Tour Schedule


Maximum 3 stops per day.  Confirmed blogs will appear here. 


2nd November

  1. The Word Is Out - Alyson's Reviews

  2. redhead_reviews1

  3. Deannas Bookstagram

  4. Christian Bookaholic

  5. Bookstagramshaz

3rd November

  1. The Bookish Hermit

  2. Portable Magic

  3. ramblingmads.com

  4. mjporterauthor.blog.

  5. Scotsbookworm

4th November

  1. Sharon Beyond The Books

  2. Novel Kicks

  3. prdgreads

  4. Bookworm86

  5. mamof9

5th November

  1. What Rebecca's Read

  2. Stacey-Ann Says

  3. buriedunderbooks

  4. sarahc_loves_reading

  5. MADEUP Book Reviews

6th November

  1. Country Mamas With Kids

  2. Frugal Freelancer

  3. iheartbooks.blog

  4. loopyloulaura

  5. Scrapping&Playing

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