The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You are sitting at the next table to Hendricks and Thorne overhearing them discuss bugs and death and missing girls.

Total waste, and a bit suspect with the bitter wife imagining wayward husband having back seat sex in a Mini with a 15 year old.Performing alongside Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre, Stuart Neville, Doug Johnstone and Luca Veste, this band of frustrated rockers murders songs for fun at literary festivals worldwide. Yes, it did get better once Hendricks, Thorne's pathologist best mate, pitched up half way through and no, I can't say I've particularly taken to Helen, even though I now know much more about her.

I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel Of The Year Award as well as the Sherlock Award for Best British Detective and been nominated for seven CWA Daggers. Following not too far off his disastrous outing to Bardsey Island this book opens with Tom and Helen on a much needed holiday in the Cotswolds.

She's either withdrawn or spoiling for a fight, leaving Tom baffled as to the cause of her behaviour. But this one was great with lots of simultaneous stories to attract your attention from the mystery.