Bleeding Heart Yard

Publisher: Quercus Editions Ltd

Date of Publication: 2022

Format: Hardback that I purchased

My Rating: 4/5

About book: 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 - but it's one she's deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school, she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. Thirty years later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer.One day her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice, is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and the investigation is high profile, it's headed by Cassie's new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur. The trouble is, Cassie can't shake the feeling that one of her old friends has killed again.Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It's in Cassie's interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding.Until someone else is killed..

My thoughts: I picked this book up to read because of the beautiful cover. I was open to what was inside. The book is the third in a series but can be read alone. I did not feel lost in the plot wondering what had gone on previously in the other books. In fact, I had not realised it was a series until after I had read the book. It was the first book I have read by Elly Griffiths, and I found it well written. Each chapter tells the story from one of the characters points of view and it moves the story on nicely. I did try to follow ‘whodunnit’ but failed miserably. The book kept me guessing right until the end, I did not see the ending playing out as it did.  I enjoyed how the characters at the police station played out and how everything came together at the end.