I love crime fiction – the twisted plots, the hidden clues, the characters and back stories. The Bone House certainly has two good intertwined plots, but that’s where it stops. This is Police Procedural with capital Ps. Plod comes to mind. The clues have flashing blue lights on them. The characters are hackneyed. And there’s no back story. Sometimes I read crime books and despair of the inevitable power struggles in the station and break-ups and neglected children at home. Often pages of colourful description of people and places leave one itching to get back to the story. Not here – and it’s only because it’s omitted that I realised how much I missed it, and how much colour is added by knowing more about the police and the villains. Back in the 1980s where this book is set, all the police work as a happy team, all respecting each other, ranks recognised, working all the hours necessary without issue or murmur. Family background is only mentioned in one case, and there’s a loving supporting wife and happy child. I don’t remember that period being so idyllic.
But, since this is the tenth book in the series, there must be a market for stories like this. The plot is good and it is undoubtedly well written (though I thought that the punctuation was too economical).

This really worked and I do like the setting it is a different police procedural as set in the past with all the connotations that it brings, the author is not shy of exploring how it worked back then.

The plot itself was great and I like how it tied up loose ends. It had great character development. This was a definite afternoon read for me as wanted to finish.

I was given an advance copy by netgalley and the publishers but the review is entirely my own.

Great book! This book had a bit of everything! It had high suspense, intrigue, action packed, murder, abuse, serial killers, revenge, a bit of a who done it and so many crazy twists and turns! The storyline was very interesting and had me glued to my Kindle! I highly recommend reading this book as it was well worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

very interesting story also I personally feel like adding some images in between the book will increase feel good factor and give some realistic feel.to it.