THE WINNER OF THE 2022 FINGERPRINT AWARDS’ CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DR RUTH GALLOWAY MYSTERIES
A propulsive thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur. A murderer hides in plain sight – in the police.
DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret – but it’s one she’s deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school, she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. Thirty years later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer.
One day her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice, is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and the investigation is high profile, it’s headed by Cassie’s new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur. The trouble is, Cassie can’t shake the feeling that one of her old friends has killed again.
Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It’s in Cassie’s interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding.
Until someone else is killed…
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Praise for Bleeding heart Yard
‘A typically twisty treat‘ Daily Express
‘Blends complex plotting with a cast of wonderfully vivid characters’ Mail on Sunday
‘More, more, more from Harbinder please!’ 5* Reader Review
‘A cleverly plotted page-turner‘ Guardian
‘One of the best female detectives around’ 5* Reader Review
‘A page-turner with an engaging cast of characters‘ Sunday Express
‘An ingenious mystery with hidden depths’ The Times
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Reviews
Witty takes on life, love and relationships pepper the novel and make the plot all the more appealing
A cleverly plotted page-turner that's well up to Griffiths's vertiginously high standard
A tightly paced, character-driven book
As ever, Griffiths skilfully blends complex plotting with a cast of wonderfully vivid characters
Filled with Griffiths's trademark good humour, this is not only a well-researched police procedural but also a very comforting novel
Once again Elly Griffiths has created an ingenious mystery with hidden depths
The third outing for Detective Harbinder Kaur, this is an easy-to-read, rewarding mystery
This standalone thriller is a page-turner with an engaging cast of characters. It provides an enjoyable take on the classic killer-at-a-school-reunion, horror-movie trope, before delivering a jaw-dropping twist
A typically twisty treat from Griffiths