Great story. Lots of twists and turns. Amazing characters.
Always great from Nick Louth, looking forward to more.

Jan Talantire has seen most things during her career in the police or at least she thought she had! Now a DI with the Devon and Cornwall force she finds herself in Ilfracombe investigating the killing of a woman in her sixties called Ruth Lyle, except this shouldn't actually be possible because Ruth has been dead for fifty years!

With Jan and her team trying to separate the present from the past, and the fanciful from the facts, the pressure to solve the case grows within the force as well as for those who were left bereft or under suspicion in the nineteen-seventies. When did Ruth Lyle really die and who is the other victim?

Nick Louth's DCI Craig Gillard is one of my all time favourites and I was sad to see his adventures end. I imagine beginning all over again with a new main protagonist would be incredibly difficult and worrying. Step up DI Jan Talantire who is worth the worry and doubts, is absolutely his equal and will hopefully be around at least as long as her illustrious predecessor. This is brilliant and one of the best series starters I've had the pleasure of reading for a very long time. The twists, turns, and jaw dropping moments, are plentiful while Jan and her team are already believable, personable, and work well together. I am fully invested in this new series and impatient for book two.

I was able to read an advanced copy of this book thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, Canelo, but the opinions expressed are my own. I thoroughly enjoyed this and recommend it highly whether you have read the author's other work or not.

Good book! Good storyline! This book had suspense, intrigue, action, murder, mystery, a fantastic who done it and some crazy twists and turns! The storyline was very interesting and kept me glued to my kindle! I definitely recommend reading this book as it was well worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!
DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in Ilfracombe, where the female occupant is found dead, impaled with a crucifix. The woman, who had been renting the house for a few months, is well known locally. Documents found at her house indicate her name is Ruth Lyle. The name means nothing to the young PC who found her, but DI Talantire knows that this cannot be true. Fifty years earlier, sixteen-year-old Ruth Lyle was murdered, stabbed by a crucifix, in exactly the same location. It is impossible for this to be the same woman, and yet all the records are a match. With a brutal killer at large, DI Talantire must work quickly to solve the most complicated case of her career: how can a woman die twice?!

Teenager Ruth Lyle was murdered in a disused church in 1973. So how, then, can a woman whose documentation says that she is Ruth Lyle be found murdered in exactly the same way in exactly the same place fifty years later?

DI Jan Talantire has never come across anything like this before.

Brilliant - hope that this is going to be a new series