Many thanks to Holly Domney and publisher Black Thorn Books for my spot on this Blog Tour.
A solid police procedural portraying the right amount of office politics, hard work, and intelligence. DCI Bill Slider did seem to have ruffled a few feathers in the office in his previous book which caused him to be assigned to old bones.
Bones were found in the garden by a young couple, and they were surmised to have been buried 20 years ago. 14 year old Amanda Knight had disappeared from the garden around the same time. A most difficult of all cold cases, there seemed to be no leads. The suspects and the witnesses were dead or lost. Nobody seemed to know much.
My first book by author Cynthia Harrod Eagles, and it took me some time to get oriented to the characters and their style of working. This was the 19th book in the series, my first, it started slow, and it was difficult to follow the way the office worked with the fallout of the previous case. But once the investigation started rolling, it was one wicked ride.
DCI Slider and his team form a cohesive team who painstakingly followed every single path they could, even if it led to a dead end. Their passion and single mindedness had to be commended upon. The author had made them quite interesting, enough for me to get hooked to the plot.
The whole book was a routine police procedural, it went where it was supposed to go until the last few chapters. Then it turned upon itself and gave me the shock of my reading life when a massive twist was revealed. I COULD HAVE NEVER IMAGINED THE DIRECTION THE PLOT WOULD GO!!
The book finished with the explosive end where the team had to work with the new reveal. Slider was fantastic at the way he deduced the right perp. One more killer caught, on to my next!!
I received a free ARC from NetGalley and publisher Black Thorn Books, and this is my journey into its pages, straight from the heart!! STRICTLY HONEST AND UNBIASED.
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is the author of over 90 books, including the internationally acclaimed Bill Slider mysteries and her Morland Dynasty series, which has sold over 100,000 copies.
cynthiaharrodeagles.com
‘You can’t upset anyone looking into old bones.’
DCI Bill Slider’s out of favour in the force – for accusing a senior Met officer of covering up an underage sex ring. As a punishment, he’s given a cold case to keep him busy: some old bones to rake through, found buried in a back garden, from a murder that happened two decades ago, and with most of the principal players already dead.
Surely Bill Slider can’t unearth anything new or shocking with these tired old bones?
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Wonderful review again!😘 This sounds like one of those great BBC detective series like Luther (that one is soo good😊). It’s always nice when a twist surprises, and you seemed to have enjoyed this one very much 😊😊 Hope you are feeling well 😘❤️
This was simply awesome, didn’t expect. Thank you so much ❤️
Glad you liked it! But the 19th in the series and your first? Isn’t that a first?
I was slammed when I saw it was 19th 🤦🏻♀️ so I read the new investigation and didn’t bother about politics 😂
Nicely done review.
Thank you so much ❤️
I love when the plot delivers a really unexpected shock. Great review, Shalini 💕
The author changed the whole story with a line it was great
I get greedy when I jump in an established series, I want to go backward and read them all.
Hahaha I can’t afford that babes… So I read what I get
Well written review Shalini. You are brave to jump in at book #19. You don’t normally do that. Glad you were able to follow it.
I didn’t know it was book 19 🙈 I jumped in, found myself drowning and then read the blurb, I waded through and concentrated on present case