As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith's home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what he's got buried in his garden: human remains.
A house full of secrets...With the storm still raging, it's too dangerous to retrieve the bodies and waves are devouring the evidence. Which means no one knows how many people Smith's already killed and how many more he'll kill if he can't be found and stopped.
An investigator with nothing to lose...The media are baying for blood, the top brass are after a scapegoat, and ex-Detective Inspector Ash Henderson is done playing nice. He's got a killer to catch, and God help anyone who gets in his way.
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'... after the new Aryan Crusade claimed responsibility for the bombing. The American Vice President described it as a cowardly and disgusting attack...' 1
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(@HarperCollinsUK, 7 January 2021, 496 pages, ebook, #ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I've read a few of the author's thrillers and have enjoyed them so I was looking forward to The Coffinmaker's Garden (loved the title by the way). I had a great time reading this. I enjoyed the premise of the book, the fact the police discover human remains buried in the garden of a condemned house just as it's about to be knocked off a cliff in a terrible storm. This poses a dilemma, should the police risk their lives to retrieve the bodies and can someone be charged with murder when the evidence has been washed away? Ash gets embroiled in the case when Gordon, the killer goes on the run with the daughter of one of his victims who sends texts which state she's afraid for her life. Ash can't let an innocent girl be killed like Gordon's other victims so set off in pursuit. Theirs is a shocking twist in the final few chapters of the book that I didn't see coming and left me reeling for the rest of the book. Highly recommended.
