I’ve been mentioning books recently, and it might seem as if I spend all my time reading. With a very few exceptions, I only read last thing at night, in bed, before I go to sleep. I’m a Kindle reader; I know lots of people don’t like them for various reasons, often preferring the feel of a real book and the tiny action of turning pages, and I understand that, and I too think books are very special. However, I am very pro-Kindle, lightweight, easy to hold snuggled up under the covers, no need for other lights which might disturb any bedmate, and if there’s a particular thing you want to check, there’s a search function. I’m digressing.
Last night I started a new book and read late into the early (or not so early) hours of the morning. As soon as I woke this morning I was reading to again and then, unusually, , I sat downstairs on the settee by the window, compulsively reading until I finished. The book is the latest Clare Mackay book by Marion Todd, ‘Bridges to Burn’, and it’s a police procedural, set in St Andrews in Scotland:
DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suicide – yet Sophie Bakewell was by all accounts a cheerful, talented student. Could she really have been hiding a darker side? It’s not the only disturbing case to land on Clare’s desk. Across town, an elderly man is in danger. Yet before the police can determine the facts, everything changes and they are presented with two suspicious deaths to investigate. As Clare and her team face the possibility that anything they believe to be true about the deaths is wrong, they might find that a killer can lurk behind the most innocent of faces…
If you like who-dunnits, and gripping reads, and writers who wrong-foot the reader but in a convincing and credible way, then I really recommend Marion’s books!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bridges-Burn-unputdownable-procedural-Detective-ebook/dp/B0CKVN3JC8
This is the eighth in the series, so you might want to start at the beginning.
My featured image is from a bridge across the River Severn and far away from Scotland, but Clare’s book does feature a bridge!
Lois Elsden 