Love lost!

Murder in Lovers’ Lane (Detective Lola Harris #2) by Daniel Sellers   

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Detective Chief Inspector Lola Harris is out running with her new personal trainer, Johnny,  when they come across an abandoned car with a couple beside it bound together, the female unconscious, the male dead—shot though the head. Fiona Balfour has no idea how she came to be there, last she knew she and her fiancé Sean Rennie, who just happened to be the scion of a major crime family in Glasgow, were going to dinner. Rita Rennie the matriarch of the family is not putting up with anything! She wants blood, Fiona’s in particular.

Lola, after some manoeuvring is handed the case. What and who to believe? Fiona seems more like a thoughtless, self centred woman who hasn’t grown up. The possibility of this not being the killer’s first time is mooted. The investigation turns to other precincts. Looking for cases similar, with the additional props identified like black confetti, cards from funeral houses. Grim work.

Meanwhile, on the personal front Lola is trying to not contact her married lover who has cancer. Trying not to do anything foolish!

A provocative read that deals with misogyny in the police force. A read that kept me turning the pages.

A Joffe Books ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.