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Bleeding Heart Yard

Breathtaking new thriller from Ruth Galloway's author

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Bleeding Heart Yard

By: Elly Griffiths
Narrated by: Candida Gubbins, Jane Collingwood, Nina Wadia
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About this listen

 A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur from the author of the No 1 bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. A murderer hides in plain sight - in the police.

DS Caitlin Fitzgerald 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, Caitlin 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 Labour MP and the investigation is high profile, it's headed by Caitlin's new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur. The trouble is, Caitlin can't shake the feeling that one of her old friends has killed again.

Is Caitlin right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It's in Caitlin's interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding.

Until someone else is killed...

(P) 2022 Quercus Editions Limited©2022 Elly Griffiths Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Psychological Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Crime Suspense

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Critic reviews

As ever, Griffiths skilfully blends complex plotting with a cast of wonderfully vivid characters
This standalone thriller is a page-turner with an engaging cast of characters. It provides an enjoyable take on the classic killer-at-a-school-reunion, horror-movie trope, before delivering a jaw-dropping twist
Witty takes on life, love and relationships pepper the novel and make the plot all the more appealing
The third outing for Detective Harbinder Kaur, this is an easy-to-read, rewarding mystery
Filled with Griffiths's trademark good humour, this is not only a well-researched police procedural but also a very comforting novel
Once again Elly Griffiths has created an ingenious mystery with hidden depths
A tightly paced, character-driven book
A cleverly plotted page-turner that's well up to Griffiths's vertiginously high standard
A typically twisty treat from Griffiths
All stars
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Really really enjoyed this book
Easy to listen to and feel involved in the story

Brilliant

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I love the character of Harbinger. This was not the best but engaging enough. I preferred the stories set around Brighton. This was a more dull story line. I enjoyed the narration

Not a favourite

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The performances are great. I love Nina Wadia’s narration in all of the Harbinder audiobooks and with supporting performances in this book I was ready to be thoroughly absorbed. The issue I have is the characters themselves - they just seem one dimensional when compared to Elly Griffiths’s Ruth Galloway and Nelson.

I found the first two books in the series quite easy to listen to and I could picture the scenes reasonably easily but not so with Bleeding Heart Yard.

I want to like it…

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Elly Griffiths has such a strong following and the scenario of a murder at a school reunion sounded so intriguing that I thought I’d give her a go. She’s a good storyteller, the dialogue is real and the whole is crisp and bang-on contemporary (Cassie’s mum watches Strictly and Michael Portillo’s travels on television) but I won’t be giving her another go.

As an audiobook it has failings which aren’t the author’s fault. The female voices despite their accents were too similar to each other so that it interfered with working out who was who. This was compounded by something which in the printed book may have been avoided by giving each chapter the name of the character narrating each part. The chapters on audio have numbers only and go back and forward in time between different characters which was a clever structure intended to hype up the suspense, but it was t confusing, particularly at the beginning.

The story revolves around a group of close friends at school quite seriously into drugs and sexual relationships with one another, one of whom had apparently fallen under a train after A Levels. a death which has haunted the friends. . At the school reunion years later, one of the group by now an MP is murdered… and then another later. The problem is that by the time we learn whodunnit (no spoilers) the guilty character had not been built up sufficiently to be at all plausible or interesting so it all fell flat.
I also found the relentless woke-ness tedious and formulaic, and the final ending just ridiculous and naff.


Not for me

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Another great book in the series, will be looking out for the next one with anticipation.

Enjoyed immensely

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