Tooth for a Tooth

This T. Frank Muir crimer just didn’t hold my interest. It’s more what this book isn’t than what it is. It isn’t really well written, it isn’t as interesting as books by the great contemporary Scottish crime writers such as Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, and Denise Mina. It didn’t even appeal as a “Scott......more

I received this as a Goodreads first reads giveaway in exchange for an honest review. For some, this crime novel will hit all the marks. It full of twists and turns, it has hints of both romance and intriguing relationships, the main investigator runs the bloody edge between good cop and bad cop. Pe......more

I've read the DCI Gilchrist series from the first book and have enjoyed each one. I thought the first two books were stronger than Tooth for a Tooth, but this one was also a positive reading experience. Gilchrist is a man devoted to his job, although he realizes that that devotion likely caused the e......more

A woman’s body is found buried in someone else’s grave, and it soon becomes clear that she was DCI Andy Gilchrist’s older brother’s girlfriend just before the brother, Jack, was killed in a hit and run accident 20 some years prior to the discovery of her body. The young woman, Kelly, had been thoug......more