Burnt Bones - Michael Slade

Burnt Bones launches a new era for Michael Slade; formerly a pseudonym for a group of Canadian Lawyers turned writers, with this seventh novel the team has been dispersed leaving just Jay Clarke to continue on his own. Future novels in the series would be written with his daughter but this novel is very much a solo project and slightly suffers because of that- at times feeling a tad over-indulgent though the story is just as gripping as in previous books. Corporal Nick Craven has not had the best of times over the last couple of books; after rising to success following the role he played in the Ripper investigation, his mother was brutally murdered, the ...  Read the complete review