Death on the River (Tara Thorpe Mystery Book 2) by Clare Chase #FridayReads #BookReview

When a body is pulled from the deep and watery fens on the outskirts of town, everybody assumes it was a tragic accident. But Detective Tara Thorpe, newly joined and determined to prove herself, suspects there’s more to the story. Tara is desperate to investigate further, but her supervisor Patrick Wilkins has other ideas. He

An Air That Kills by Andrew Taylor (The Lydmouth Crime Series ~ 1) #BookReview

Workmen in the small market town of Lydmouth are demolishing an old cottage. A sledgehammer smashes into what looks like a solid wall. Instead, layers of wallpaper conceal the door of a locked cupboard which holds a box – and in the box is the skeleton of a young baby. Items within the box suggest

Murder on the Marshes (Tara Thorpe Mystery Book 1) by Clare Chase #TuesdayBookBlog #BookReview

The sun rises on a lush stone courtyard, where birds sing and ferns shade an ancient, burbling fountain. But in the fountain’s murky depths, a young woman’s body grows cold… Samantha Seabrook – an ambitious young woman with a chequered past – is found drowned in the ornamental fountain of a locked Cambridge courtyard. The

A High Mortality of Doves (Albert Lincoln Book 1) by Kate Ellis #TuesdayBookBlog

1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still reeling from four years of war. Just when the village has begun to regain its tranquillity, a young girl, Myrtle Bligh, is found stabbed and left in woodland, her mouth slit to accommodate a dead dove – a bird of peace. When two more women are found