Head Wound

I used to look forward to new Judith Cutler books, especially her Sophie Rivers series, but I've found her later books disappointing, in fact, boring. In this one, her latest protagonist, Jane Cowan, is again dealing with stressful work life, as head teacher of two underfunded primary schools and th......more

I've read many of Judith Cutler's books and for this series I've read all three. I found this an odd read. It takes up five months after the end of the previous book. Jane Cowan is juggling being an executive headteacher of two neighbouring village schools and trying to get her recently acquired hom......more

I have read and enjoyed fifteen of the author's books though the last one I read was over ten years ago. However I struggled with this one. There seemed to be a lot of characters to keep track of and I wondered if I would have better understood things had I had read the earlier books in this series.......more

I read the first book in the Jane Cowan series earlier in the year - Head Wound is the third featuring this headmistress/amateur detective. I found the sequence of action somewhat confusing and disjointed in places, and as the story progressed I became increasingly irritated by Jane Cowan's judgemen......more

The third Jane Cowan thriller is another complex thriller set in the misleading bucolic beauty of the English countryside.......more