Bleeding Heart Yard

By Elly Griffiths,

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FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DR RUTH GALLOWAY MYSTERIES

A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur. A murderer hides in plain sight - in the police.

DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret. When she was at school, she and her friends were responsible for…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Bleeding Heart Yard as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is the 3rd of 4 books (so far) featuring detective Harbinder Kaur. If you love a real puzzle of a mystery, multiple viewpoints with interesting characters, and good writing, start with the first in the series (Stranger Diaries, which won MWA's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2020) and enjoy your way through this exceptional series. Then give her Ruth Galloway series a try. Her crime novels are on my short list of go-to delights.

Death on a Shetland Longship: The Shetland Sailing Mysteries

By Marsali Taylor,

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Author Sailor Women’s historian Cat-lover Temporarily limping But determinedly recovering

Marsali's 3 favorite reads in 2023

What is my book about?

Liveaboard sailor Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally arrived when she blags her way into skippering a Viking longship for a Hollywood film. However, this means returning to the Shetland Islands, the place she fled as a teenager. When a corpse unexpectedly appears onboard the longship, she can run from the past no longer: Cass and her family come under intense scrutiny from the disturbingly shrewd Detective Inspector Gavin Macrae.

Even if Cass’s local knowledge and sailing wisdom help to clear the Lynch family of suspicion, they may not be enough to stay ahead of the murderer’s game...…

Death on a Shetland Longship: The Shetland Sailing Mysteries

By Marsali Taylor,

What is this book about?

When she wangles the job of skippering a Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally arrived - even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands, which she ran away from as a teenager. Then the `accidents' begin - and when a dead woman turns up on the boat's deck, Cass realises that she, her family and her past are under suspicion from the disturbingly shrewd Detective Inspector Macrae. Cass must call on all her local knowledge, the wisdom she didn't realise she'd gained from sailing and her glamorous, French opera singer mother…


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