Cold Bones – David Mark
Like the last DS McAvoy case, Scorched Earth , there’s a lot of joining up of dots to be done in Cold Bones . Since we’re talking about the Humberside police here with Hull as a major shipping and fishing port, that means that those dots can travel to a lot of far-flung places that make them difficult to connect. There’s a particularly difficult geographical and historical connection to be made in the rather grim case (aren’t they all?) that DS Aector McAvoy and his boss Detective Superintendent Trish Pharaoh have to deal with in two separate locations. one in Hull and the other in Iceland, but that’s the least of the obstacles standing in their way. It’s Pharaoh who is doing the long-distance travelling this time, a highly sensitive matter whose details haven’t been shared with anyone on the Humberside force – not her closest friend, colleague and confidante, McAvoy and not even Area Commander David Slattery. A body has been found in a frozen bay that has connections to a suspected se...