Leigh Russell – Guilt Edged

Today I am so pleased to say I am on the blog tour for Guilt Edged by Leigh Russell on behalf of Random Things Tours and I must thank Anne Cater for my invite and No Exit Press for my gifted copy.

THE NEW NOVEL IN THE MILLION-COPY SELLING DETECTIVE GERALDINE STEEL SERIES

An inoffensive man is murdered in a seemingly motiveless attack. Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel and her team are baffled, until DNA from an apparent stranger is discovered on the victim’s body.

Geraldine is not convinced the suspect is guilty. When a witness comes forward to offer the suspect an alibi, Geraldine lets him go. That night, a second murder is committed. The evidence points to the suspect who has just been released.

As Geraldine attempts to make sense of the suspect’s complex history, he goes on the run. Even his wife appears to condemn him. Only Geraldine still doubts that he is to blame for the murders, but is she prompted by her own guilt for having released him to kill again?

As the story races towards a breathtaking twist, Geraldine is tormented by self-doubt, and struggles to focus all her attention on the case. Someone is lying and the police must uncover the truth before anyone else is killed…

The seventeenth book in the Geraldine Steel series and Leigh Russell just keeps on coming with another excellent police procedural. This is a series that you are able to just dip in with one book, but on the other hand, you don’t quite appreciate the depth of the characters if you do.

This story is told from Geraldine and the killers’ perspectives. I always like it when the reader is allowed to peek in a murderers head, and in this book, it just made me read until I had to tear myself away from the kindle.

The case that Geraldine,Ian, and the team come up against is a baffling one that seems like a murder without a motive. She feels that an innocent man has been arrested for the murder,so, in Geraldine Steel’s way, she decides to start digging…alone.

Leigh Russell never disappoints,ever! Whenever I know there is another Geraldine book due out, I always get so excited as I know Leigh is a master storyteller, and the way she crafts a story can almost hypnotise me. Her characters are so well developed that I feel like I am back with friends whenever I start another Geraldine Steel book.

If anyone loves a police procedural with excellently crafted characters and a story that keeps you reading on until late in the night with plenty of twists and turns, Guilt Edged is a book to try.