SYNOPSIS
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...
Title: Bleeding Heart Yard
Author: Elly Griffiths
Series: DI Harbinder Kaur #3
Publisher: Quercus
Publication date: 29 Septiembre 2022
REVIEW
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐💫
Is it possible to forget you’ve committed a murder? That’s the interesting premise Bleeding Heart Yard parts from. This is the third installment in the DI Harbinder Kaur series.
Newly promoted DI Harbinder Kaur is now living in London, still accommodating to her new live, when her first big case lands at her feet. During a school reunion in a posh school, one of the former students, now a MP, is murdered. He was a part of a group of friends that called themselves “The Group”, that now will be forced to face their shared past, as their friend’s death might be related to another death they were involved with 21 years ago.
I’ve been loving this series so much! Harbinder Kaur is such a fantastic character. It’s been great seeing her out of the comfort of her hometown and her parent’s wings. She’s still caustic and has a dark sense of humour, but is much more mature this time around. Her move to London means she has new colleagues at work, and they were such a nice team. Her duo with DS Kim Manning was a really interesting one.
While I’ve enjoyed all three books in the series, this time I had a harder time engaging with the cast of characters. While The Postcript Murders (2nd book in the series) was full of really charming characters that made for a fantastic read (they make a small appearance here), in Bleeding Heart Yard, they felt a bit cold and detached, and I could not connect with any of the characters in “The Group”. The back and forth between them felt a bit confusing at times. It also seemed to focus too much on the incident in the past and that was a bit repetitive.
The first two books in the series had more of a unique and original feel, while this one read more like a traditional police procedural. Nice on its own, but lacking a bit when compared to the other two. At least the ending still delivered some surprises!
Nice, easy to read mystery that, although not my favorite from the author, brings back a much beloved main character I can’t get enough of, so I’m really looking forward to reading more of this series.
Thanks to NetGalley and Quercus for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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