Lynda La Plante

Another novel in the Anna Travis detective series, Clean Cut starts with tragedy striking as DCI James Langton is near fatally injured whist on duty. He pulls through, but requires a lot of rehab, which as a man used to being in the thick of things, he isn't too happy about. The first part of the book focuses on the strain this puts on Anna as she tries to juggle work, being James' carer and fighting off rumors that the DCI will never return to policing.

La Plante excels again in british crime fiction with another great read. it is great, but slightly odd, to read a crime thriller book set in the UK - we are so used to reading american fiction that it disorientates you a bit to begin with! The characters are well rounded and the team could easily be part of a tv series (that would actually be very watchable).

I really enjoyed this book. It was nice to read a murder-thriller type novel that is set in the UK rather than the USA. I felt this made the characters a little more relatable, and it was nice to have reference to places that you know in the storyline.