In Gytha Lodge’s highly original and impressive A Killer in the Family, a woman enters her DNA on an ancestry site and discovers she might be related to a serial killer.
Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens has just settled in for a pint of lager in the garden of the Spreading Oak pub when a teenage girl covered in blood emerges from the trellised gateway adjacent to the road.
In Gytha Lodge’s clever and entertaining mystery, Louise wakes up next to a corpse with no idea who the dead man is or how he got there.
Lodge’s autopsy of complicated friendships, love affairs and eventual justice is eminently satisfying.
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