DCI Liam Brodie is facing a new difficult mission: unearthing the truth about the case of an apparent serial death of children in a Scottish foster home. A complex case that leads not only to decades-old secrets, but also to all rivalries and jealousies. His girlfriend, Ruth Calder, a psychologist, may help to offer a bit of context, as the house were the children bones were found used to be her home as well.
Broken Bones by bestseller Scottish author John Carson is one of the best Scottish thrillers I´ve read in a while. Eventful, mysterious, but also with that touch of human flaw that turn so well a normal story into a crime one. Both the events and the characters, with all their defaults, do create the best perspective to delve into the human nature. Brodie is used with brutal truths, after all he was able to catch the terrible author of series murder in Edinburgh before taking up this case, but the truths he is about to discover this time, are even harder to cope with than everything he experienced before.
Definitely, one needs to be ready to expect the unexpected in crimewise realm. But what other serious reason we may have when chosing this genre than being offered the best insights into the darkest corners of human mind and behavior?
Rating: 4.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
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