Earlier this year, Elly Griffiths won the Edgar Award for best book with her 2018 bestselling mystery novel The Stranger Diaries. One of the minor characters in it was DS Harbinder Kaur, and here Griffiths has given the policewoman, who secretly characterises herself as “the best gay Sikh detective in West Sussex”, a leading role. Natalka also reveals she was held at gunpoint by a masked intruder who stole a book while she was cleaning Peggy’s flat after her death. Natalka sets off with two of Peggy’s best friends for Aberdeen where a number of Peggy’s “author clients” are speaking at a literary festival where more murders are committed. A cracking political thriller from Watson, the former deputy leader of the British Labour Party, and historical novelist Imogen Robertson, this lays bare the lies and betrayals inherent in politics.

Source: Irish Independent October 31, 2020 05:03 UTC