‘Broken Bones’ by John Carson

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Broken Bones, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources

Blurb

Some bodies just won’t stay buried…

After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle – and solve – the hardest of cases. But when he’s assigned to Fife’s Major Investigations Team, he soon realises that he’s walking into a minefield. The previous DCI is missing, presumed dead, and the case he’s been called in to lead becomes dangerously close to home.

When a child’s bones are unearthed beneath the floorboards of an old house in Fife – the same house where his girlfriend, psychologist Ruth Calder, grew up as a foster daughter – Brodie uncovers a tangled web of lies and jealousy. Ruth’s foster mother, now gripped by dementia, holds fragments of the truth but in a community haunted by its history, Brodie must navigate betrayal and buried guilt to bring a decades-old secret to light.

But at what cost to those he loves most?

My Review (4 stars out of 5)

This is the first book I have read by John Carson, and it gets off to a gripping start, where our hero DCI Brodie gets himself into a dangerous situation that could easily end his life. Set in Edinburgh and Fife, the story has two sides to it which didn’t immediately gel for me, though it all makes sense later on. Following the initial excitement, the story jumps forwards in time and slows down a little, taking a while to get going again. However, the characters are an interesting lot (such as Dr Gabriel Kane, who clashes with DCI Brodie) and the dialogue has plenty of humour in it, which balances out the darker, twisty-turny aspects of the plot.   

Great start to this new series that will please lovers of police procedurals.  

Author Bio

John Carson is the multi-million, bestselling author of  numerous Scottish-set crime series.

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