Old loyalties and older crimes prove to be awkwardly alive, with sleuths of very different temperaments to dig them up. From Lorimer’s interrupted holiday in Zimbabwe to Ruth Galloway’s storm-lashed Norfolk coast, Rebus’s own history and an isolated North Devon island full of birdwatchers, the past is never politely buried. Good reading for a long evening!
Alex Gray, Out of Darkness (DSI Lorimer 21) - DSI Lorimer finally takes Maggie on holiday to Zimbabwe, where Daniel Kohi's past turns out to be everyone's business.
Elly Griffiths, The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway 3) - Ruth Galloway, newly back from maternity leave, meets six skeletons in a Norfolk cliff and a village that prefers silence.
Ian Rankin, Saints of the Shadow Bible (Rebus 19) - Rebus is back on the force, demoted and truculent, while Malcolm Fox reopens a thirty-year-old case involving his old team.
Ann Cleeves, Come Death and High Water (George and Molly Palmer-Jones 2) - A birdwatching weekend on Gillibry Island ends in murder, and George must unmask a killer among his fellow birders.
