A victim who’s made her last mistake. A killer hiding in plain sight. Detective Siv Drummond faces her toughest case yet . . . One Saturday morning, Detective Siv is called to Lansdown Court, a secluded little seaside community of artists, entrepreneurs and drifters. Where someone just committed the ultimate crime. Behind the doors of Jem Calloway’s studio, the walls, the canvases, everything is stained red. With blood. Slumped in Jem’s chair, there’s a dead woman. A knife plunged deep in her neck. She is Luanna Forbes, owner of the bijou gift shop next door. Jem says he has no idea how she got there. He spent the whole night at a party, in a drunken haze. Detective Siv has her doubts. Because her sergeant was at the same party. And something was eating Jem that night. A secret he couldn’t tell. What — or who — made him hold his tongue? Siv must break through a wall of silence to uncover the truth. But in a tight-knit community where blood runs thicker than water, she’s got her work cut out . . .
I loved this book, this is actually the first in the series of these books that I have read despite this being book number 5!
I like our main character Siv and love the fact that we have some major personal family drama on the side! She seems to play it tough both at work and with the family but there does seem to be a softer side to her too.
As for the murder storyline itself - there were several people that could have done it and I loved the fact that everyone seemed to have something to hide, with some characters being written as 'more dodgy' than others it was brilliant and kept me guessing as the story unfolded and the secrets came out.
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