Review: Murder in Mind

Murder in Mind by Faith Martin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I've read 16 DI Hillary Greene novels practically back-to-back so the reviews will be of necessity a bit brief. If you are binge-reading like I am the reminders of what happened previously can be a bit repetitive, but I imagine it means a new reader could jump right in and get up to speed quickly.

After having retired to avoid bringing herself and the Thames valley Police into disrepute if anyone discovered she had helped to cover up a pre-meditated murder by a former colleague, Hillary returned after 18 months and joined the cold case review team.

The cold case in this novel concerns Sylvia Perkins, a 75 year old pensioner, battered to death by what is thought to have been her own fire poker. Suspicion originally fell on her ne'er do well grandson Robbie who stood to inherit what little she had, but there was no evidence that he had been there. Another suspect was Sylvia's love rival for a dapper gentleman. Or was it her close friend and neighbour who blamed Sylvia for poisoning her beloved cat?

Whilst solving this crime (which I thought was relatively straightforward), Hillary is also dealing with the suspicious activity from her new(ish) intern Jake, a multi-millionaire entrepreneur with an ulterior motive for joining the squad.

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