You're missing out if you're not reading Lara Dearman. She's from the island originally and evokes it with style and an acute sense of place that only a native could really know. She lives and breathes the island and even though this is a cracking mystery with plenty of island hopping, it's also a very good guide to the islands themselves.

This is a very well-written mystery with style and atmosphere. A very complex mystery which goes back years and builds and builds to a very intriguing ending. The police duo develop and grow in this novel and you find out more about their personal lives, their working relationship and their reaction to the closed room style of investigating such a small island community.

Early review but I love this book so much I had to shout about it!