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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? ⚠️

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My thoughts: Brodie has been working on a case involving a now imprisoned serial killer, trying to locate and identify his victims. Seconded to Fife, where their DCI has gone missing and key people connected to him have died in supposed suicides, he’s involved in two very different cases.

The first is the terribly sad case of the remains of a young boy found under the floorboards of a house. He might be the son of the owner – a child who supposedly ran away after his father committed suicide. If that’s true, someone in the house killed him and hid his body. To complicate matters, Brodie’s partner Ruth, was fostered by the family as a child. She remembers the house and the family as not a happy place or people. Brodie’s got to find out what happened, and it stirs up difficult memories for all involved.

The MIT officers are also looking for their boss, after returning from holiday, he just vanished. It distracts them from the murdered boy, and Brodie, while sympathetic, has to pull them up on it and get them back to work.

Meanwhile his Edinburgh colleagues are attempting to identify the body found in a shallow grave, one their serial killer didn’t put there. It turns out to be connected to Brodie too, and there might be another serial killer out there.

This is a gripping, clever read, there are twists and turns and the three cases overlap and interweave as the two police teams attempt to solve them. Brodie is torn between the work he’s doing in Fife and what’s happening in Edinburgh, wanting to help there too. As for the missing DCI, it doesn’t look good for him either.  I really enjoyed this and if you’re into thrillers or police procedurals, you will too.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

Detective Inspector Michael Angel returns to face his toughest case yet — and this time, he’s missing his right-hand man!

Discover a brand-new, page-turning murder mystery in the bestselling series. One million books read!

A detective who’s no angel despite his name . . .

Meet Detective Michael Angel. An old-school policeman who sometimes rubs his team up the wrong way. He’s got his flaws, but he never gives up on a case.

One dead actor, murdered on set while the cameras roll.
When dashing Rodney Pertwee is shot dead at Northern Film Studios, everyone assumes it’s part of the script. Until Rodney’s leading lady spots a bloodstain that’s anything but fake.

Enter Inspector Angel. He arrives to find a room full of shaken witnesses. They all watched Rodney die. Yet no one saw the real-life shooter.
Who’s telling the truth — and who’s turning in an award-winning performance?

Out of the corner of his eye, Angel glimpses a mysterious woman in green, slipping out the exit. No one knows her name. Or what she was doing on the closed set.

Angel’s determined to find out. But he can’t do it without his loyal DC Scrivens — who’s
disappeared without a trace.

Can Angel track down his friend before the killer returns for one final cut?

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Roger Silverwood is a mystery crime writer who lives in Barnsley in Yorkshire at the foot of the Pennines. He has worked as a salesman and sales manager covering the UK and Ireland.

He has been a copywriter in an advertising agency and an antique dealer in precious jewellery until he retired in 1989 to write full-time.

His big success is the series of 29 books featuring Inspector Angel. He has also written 5 standalone novels and a radio play. His books are available in all English-speaking countries.

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My thoughts: This was really good, there was so much mystery around the identity and whereabouts of the probable murderer. This figure that was just out of Inspector Angel’s reach multiple times – he got so close.

But even before we got onto the murder, Angel had to rescue his number two, DC Scrivens, who had been abducted by the gang he brought down by arresting their leader.

Two investigations for the price of one!

This was hugely enjoyable and now I have the immense fun of exploring the rest of the series. Join me!

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.