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A thriller of widening possibilities.
This review is based on a free review copy from the publisher via Net Galley UK.
There are two departures from current normal police practice in this story:
Two detectives who live together in an intimate sort of way investigate the same case and they solve the case by considering an ever-widening range of possibilities in the light of events subsequent to the original crime and the emerging evidence. The former adds a bit of spice, the latter is thought-provoking as soon as you allow yourself to start thinking about those possibilities rather than wondering when the author is going to actually narrow down the list of suspects.
Told with humour and with some Len Deighton-ish departures into cookery, the story follows the detectives, one having served in London and the other in the big, drug-ravaged cities of the North West, as they investigate what looks to them like an all-too familiar brutal murder, probably involving drugs, for which there is just a smattering of local precedent.
Except that this is rural Cornwall where this sort of thing is uncommon almost to the point of being unheard of and the explanation is something that could only really happen in that location, even though the level and frequency of violence is totally out of character for that community. The conclusion is frightening enough for this to possibly be the last book in this particular series, but it might not be...
A Cornish Seaside Murder by Fiona Leitch is published by Harper Collins on the 8th of June 2023
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