At this time’s workforce overview is from Sandra. She blogs right here https://www.firthproof.co.uk/index.php/book-reviews
Sandra has been studying Useless Man’s Stone by T.G. Reid.
DCI Duncan Bone remains to be on sick depart recovering from accidents sustained within the earlier ebook, and at last getting remedy for his longstanding PTSD, when a sadistic killer who’s dying in jail insists on chatting with him a few forty-year-old chilly case. As soon as once more, undecided that he’s fairly prepared, he’s drawn again into the center of an investigation linked to high-ranking and well-respected people who’re ready to kill to cease the reality from popping out.
The ebook opens with a horrific prologue that has the reader hooked straight away. The deeper the detectives dig, extra secrets and techniques are uncovered, and witnesses begin dying in suspicious circumstances earlier than they will shed any mild on what occurred. Can DCI Bone and his workforce discover the killer earlier than anybody else has to die?
The characters are properly drawn and simple to tell apart; all of them deliver completely different expertise to the workforce. The humorous dialogue, which may sometimes be a bit clunky, offsets the grim nature of the crimes they encounter each day. There may be simply sufficient background about their house life to make them properly rounded and plausible. It’s good that Bone is getting assist, as he’s a lot calmer and simpler to work with this time spherical.   The setting within the hanging surroundings of the Campsie Fells is uncommon, and makes a change from the large cities and cities in different detective novels. Once I was a baby, within the Nineteen Sixties, it was a favorite place for my household to go for a picnic in the summertime. I completely loved studying Useless Man’s Stone, the third ebook within the sequence, and am wanting ahead to ebook 4, The Killing Parade,  when it comes out later this 12 months. This sequence simply retains on getting higher.
Some secrets and techniques are price killling for…
When DCI Duncan Bone is contacted by a terminally-ill psychiatric affected person and given clues linking a thirty-year-old unsolved homicide to high-profile public figures, he finds himself locked right into a conspiracy on the very coronary heart of the Scottish prison and political institution.
Along with his bosses stonewalling the investigation, lives beneath risk, and his profession on the road, Bone faces a race in opposition to time to seek out a bunch of males who will cease at nothing to cowl their murderous crime.
Can DCI Bone catch the killer earlier than the killing begins once more?
Set among the many dramatic hills and glens of Scotland’s Campsie Fells, Useless Man’s Stone is the third in a sequence of edge-of-your-seat crime thrillers that may hold you guessing proper as much as the nail-biting, heart-stopping climax.
