Cover the Bones
A Detective Mark Turpin murder mystery

Cover the Bones is book five in Rachel Amphlett's Detective Mark Turpin series. When archaeologists were surveying the southeast of Didcot, they found a body. Initially, they believed the body was from an ancient Saxon settlement. However, after the second body, Detective Mark Tupin and his team rea......more

This is the first book I've read by this author and the first in this series - however, this is actually book 5 of the Detective Mark Turpin series. I'm sure that there will have been lots going on in the personal lives of Mark and the gang, but this really didn't feel like I'd missed anything too d......more

This is book 5 in the Detective Mark Turpin series but definitely can be read as a stand alone. I loved this gripping storyline and solid characters. I enjoyed the slow pace of the story which allowed me to get to know the personal side of the characters, which made it so relatable. I really enjoyed......more

Our story starts with an archaeologist carrying out a survey using ground penetrating radar. This is crime fiction, so immediately the reader is thinking body number one coming up (quite literally) shortly. Indeed, we are not to be disappointed, and the author has made an excellent job here capturin......more

In the South East of Didcot, electricity pylons are due to be replaced by underground cables and a group of archaeologists are making a last chance sweep of the area before it is dug up. What they don’t expect to find is the shallow grave of a woman. The police at Abingdon in Oxfordshire, led by DS......more