A well plotted and paced thriller with a good protagonist in DS Catherine Bishop. She's got a mess of a case- cases- on her hands- there's arson, there's domestic abuse, there's murder- but she's going to figure it out. Part of a series but just fine as a standalone.

A fast paced thriller that keeps you guessing. I didn't realise it was part of a series but I didn't feel that mattered much while reading. I think it still works as a standalone.

Great plot to get yourself lost in. This book has everything. A real fast paced thriller. Will get your heart racing on more than one occasion. Very well written. Highly recommend this book

Great thriller that kept me turning the pages. Great story, great writing and characters. Really enjoyable and would read this author again.

This is the fourth book in the series featuring Detective Catherine Bishop. I hadn’t read the other books in the series but enjoyed this as a stand-alone. Catherine is still traumatised from her last case and is hoping to ease back into work but she ends up facing two brutal cases. A young couple, Hollie and Andy, are found murdered in their home and there is also an arsonist on the loose and in the latest fire a body is discovered, Catherine learns that Andy was violent towards his wife and so it seems plain that she killed him but when the pathologist informs her that they were killed hours apart Catherine begins to wonder if the cases are linked. This book was a really good read, well plotted with plenty of twists and turns. A good crime thriller.
Thanks to Netgalley and Canelo for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

Catherine Bishop working in an overwhelmed police force is just trying to get over a traumatic attack in the past. Still under medication, she is slowly getting to grips with herself and has thrown herself headlong into the latest cases. Deaths which seem to be involving domestic violence. A young couple dead leaving behind two babies.

Added to this is an arsonist in town, setting alight businesses. Now he has upped his game and set fire to a business with an inmate inside and this is now arson and murder. When investigations reveal that the victim was first murdered and then the building was set alight it adds another dimension to the recent incidents and the detectives in charge of the case, are now looking to find links between the three deaths though on the surface, no one was known to each other nor knew each other.

We have arson, rapists, domestic violence, robbery and everything going in the mix to put the detectives off the scent. Every witness brought forward seems to be hiding secrets and it is difficult to find out any clues as to who killed whom.

Slowly evolving, the detection work goes step by step and it is sheer plod that gets the work done.

Very well told, this was a good story.

Wow what a ‘who dunnit’ that was ! I don’t think I’ve ever read a book where I didn’t have at least some sort of clue as to who the culprit was but with this one I must admit it had me flummoxed!! Great storyline will definitely read more in this series

A good detective story with great characters and a good plot. Kept me hooked all the way through. Will have to read the previous books now.

D.S Catherine Bishop is recovering from the last case she was on when she is thrown into another case of an arsonist.
A man and a woman are found dead in the apartment But they appear to have been killed hours apart.
A body of a man turns up in one of the torched buildings he has been strangled.
Are these cases related?
Will they find the killer before they kill again .
Plenty of twists and turns
Thanks NetGalley.

An entertaining and gripping police procedural that kept me hooked.
Excellent character development, a solid mystery that kept me guessing.
It's recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

A good solid detective story. Believable characters and plot. There were lots of twists and turns and the ending was excellent in bringing all the strands together. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it.
Thank you Lisa Hartley,Canelo and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book

A good detective story where thhe plot is not too obvious, but which does not stretch the realms of possibility too much. One criticism would be that sometimes the investigation takes a diversion, the relevance of which is not always apparent at the time of reading , but as the book progresses you begin to see the bigger picture.
I liked the main detectives, Catherine and Jonathon. This is the first book I have read of the series so I don't know the details of what they have gone through previously. These are mentioned in the book, but not to the extent that you think , yes I know that now which can be a negative in a later installment in a series. I did not feel at a disadvantage that I have not read any of the previous books about Catherine.
Plenty of suspense and enough opportunities to think about the perpetrators of the crime. I did feel that the ending was a bit rushed(hence 4 stars) , but look forward to reading more from this author
Thank you to Net Galley , the author and Canelo publishing for a good read in excahnge for an honest review

This is the fourth book in the series featuring DS Catherine Bishop and the second one I’ve read in the series. Catherine has to solve two crimes, an arsonist is burning down buildings and in the latest fire, a body is found. Also she has to deal with the death of a young couple, Hollie and Andy. Andy was a wife beater and this case seems cut and dried when everyone assumes Hollie has had enough and killed her husband, but nothing fits. An interesting story and I enjoyed it very much. You do not have to read the other novels in this series. Very good police procedurals and plenty of twists. Recommended.

Home Fires Burn is the fourth instalment in the DS Catherine Bishop series, set in and around Northolme. It isn't a necessity to have read the previous three books in order to enjoy or comprehend this one although it probably is preferable and it's no hardship when the series is so well executed. Catherine is still attempting to recover as best she can from her last case which affected her in quite an extreme way. Despite her being traumatised she decides it's time to go back to police work and hopes her first few cases will go easy on her but she has no such luck. She rapidly becomes entangled in three seemingly different but equally dangerous crimes. A number of fires have been set across the town by what the police have deemed is an arsonist, the bodies of a husband and wife have been discovered dead in their apartment under suspicious circumstances and the corpse of another man has been found in one of the torched buildings. Each of the cases comes with its issues. There is not enough manpower to stake out the empty buildings that could be targeted next, the married couple were killed hours apart and the guy found in the shell of the building had been strangled before the place was set ablaze. Can the cases be solved before more death and destruction occurs?

This is a compulsive and complex set of cases and as more bodies drop it becomes even more complicated with the level of dangerousness being ratcheted up to a maximum. It's a creepy, intense and action-packed police procedural and is full of twists and turns from the beginning. I never lost interest in the plot and there were no dull moments where I felt it dragged or the story petered out. The chapters simply flew by with enough included in each to propel the tale forward and the pacing was pretty spot on. Riveting from the very beginning, there is so much action that you are always on the edge of your seat. The ripples and repercussions of the last case are still being strongly adding more pressure to Catherine's situation; you really feel for her when she is thrown back in at the deep end when she restarts work as the unexpected comes into play. A page-turner with an interesting and well-developed cast, some powerful twists, a tense and often spine-chilling atmosphere and a satisfying conclusion. Roll on number five! Highly recommended. Many thanks to Canelo for an ARC.

Home Fires Burning is a tautly plotted police procedural and fourth in a series by Liz Hartley. You just want to sink in to this complex mystery, with realistic characters and a storyline so full of puzzles and twists that you’ll keep wondering until the last page.

After the returns from leave, Northolme DI Catherine Bishop is quickly enmeshed in three seemingly separate crimes. An arsonist has been setting fires randomly around the town, a man and his wife have been found dead in their apartment, and another dead man has been discovered in one of the burned out buildings. The team of detectives faces several problems. They lack the manpower to stake out all the empty buildings in town, the dead man and his wife were murdered hours apart, and the man found in the building had been strangled before the fire was set. Next come the long hours of the investigations, as Catherine and her partner Jonathan Knight, pressured by their superior officers, try to solve the cases before there are more fires or deaths.

Liz Hartley has delivered a near perfect police procedural. Catherine Bishop is a multilayered character, trying to balance her career and her private life. Jonathan Knight has the same problems, problems that I hope are resolved in the next book in this excellent series. 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Canelo and Liz Hartley for this ARC.

This is the fourth book in the Catherine Bishop series by author Lisa Hartley. This is the first book I have read by this author and starting on book four didn't spoil my enjoyment in the slightest.

DS Catherine Bishop's is facing one of the most brutal cases of her career when two dead bodies are discovered in the family home. On top of that their is an arsonist on the loose causing destruction everywhere. There seem to be more questions than answers and Catherine faces the pressures from seniors to get results before more death and destruction can take place.

This is a very good police procedural series and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Good characters, well plotted and lots of action
I would like to thank both Netgalley and Canelo for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

A really good read. A well thought out plot and great believable characters. This is the first book that I have read in this series and I now want to read the rest.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Recovering after a traumatic case DS Catherine Bishop re enters the police force only to be dive nose first into Murder and an arsonist on the loose

When the bodies of a an and woman are found dead at home and their children are found alive and crying Catherine Bishop has to investigate Murder/Suicide or something else ?

Slightly hard to follow in parts but perseverance and back reading jelps

Fab book by lisa hartley with the female lead detective catherine bishop. Twists and turns gallore. Fans of angela marsons will love this crime series

Book four in the Detective Catherine Bishop series starts off at a slow pace. The plot was a bit difficult to follow at times but the book was well written with plenty twists and a few suspects. I would recommend reading the other books in the series for background detail but this can be read as a stand alone. A good crime thriller. Thanks to Net Galley for my ARC.