With so many potential motives and countless opportunities, there's only one man who can help solve this particular mystery. In this instalment we see the ongoing development of the relationships between Ryan and Anna, Frank and Denise and Mel and Jack. A fatica sono a metà del libro, lo trovo estremamente noioso, i personaggi sono irriconoscibili, si perdono in chiacchiere e schermaglie inutili all'economia della storia, che ancora non decolla. Accusations abound in the small, close-knit community, and ‘old’ religions spar against ‘new’ while fear runs like. Yes, we get it, he is tall and handsome and upper class and white and privileged, but why does this need to be reiterated so many times?

However, the rest of it seemed lacking somehow – every other thread outside of the mystery was left hanging. Accusations abound in the small, close-knit community, and ‘old’ religions spar against ‘new’ while fear runs like wildfire through the streets. In addition to her DCI Ryan series, Louise has created a new series of thriller novels based around the central character of ‘Dr Alexander Gregory’, whose work as a psychological profiler takes him around the world. There's a few suspects, but the main one is found dead, slightly turning the investigation on it's head.Come gli altri, lo sto leggendo in lingua originale e, rispetto ai precedenti 19 della serie, trovo eccessivo l'uso di espressioni linguistiche locali, unite alla novità della scelta, a volte pretenziIosa, del lessico. Dopo aver a lungo atteso quest'ultimo romanzo della serie, mi dispiace dire che sono veramente delusa. It's a fair enough thing, and I get why someone might be insecure about it if people are being snobby, but this seemed overkill, and the entire scene seemed to be there to justify self-publishing, and then absolutely nothing happened about that whole storyline. It makes you want to visit Northumberland and immerse yourself in the world described so well by the author.

Louise is a keen philanthropist, and is pleased to have supported numerous non-profit programmes in addition to founding several of her own, including the Lindisfarne Reading Challenge and the Lindisfarne Prize for Debut Crime Fiction. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The death of one of the locals isn’t as clear cut as everyone seems to think and it’s great seeing the team working together as the case gets more twisted and complicated. To put it mildly, after reading what seemed to be several pages of self-justification and self-congratulation, I was pretty sure that the author must self-publish. The brief sections on the Northumbrian landscape were really interesting - it's definitely an area of the world I'd want to find out more about. Lot of focus is on Melanie Yates, who is struggling with the events of the previous books and there is lot of her internal dilema in this book, but it does not overpower the main story.

Her eleventh novel, The Infirmary, is a prequel story to the DCI Ryan series and is available as a major Audible Originals audio-drama starring Tom Bateman, Kevin Whately, Bertie Carvel, Hermione Norris and Alun Armstrong.Weirdly, Ross seemed more interested in mocking environmental activists and veganism, which seem to be less about the characters' opinions and more about Ross's own thoughts on these matters. I always enjoy the author’s descriptive writing in this series, I like to take myself off to these wonderful parts of Northumberland in my mind. I laughed so much throughout with Frank’s one liners, he is 100% a character that I will forever love! The Bookseller magazine has reported on Louise having topped the ‘Most Read’ and ‘Most Sold’ fiction charts, and she has garnered an army of loyal fans who love her atmospheric and addictive storytelling.