TG Reid (2021)  Blood Water Falls

TG Reid  Blood Water Falls setting is the Highlands. The cover describes it as ‘A DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thriller’. I’ve not read other of Reid’s series of books featuring DCI Bone. But as a standalone book—‘You can’t drown the dead’—that should be unnecessary. But Reid and DCI Bone didn’t work for me. I read around the first 30 pages. Over a million copies of this book sold? Perhaps I should add an exclamation mark!

Richard Jones, a geography teacher, with a penchant for photography has an annual ritual where he takes a photo of Killwinoch’s Blood Water Falls— his last sunrise. He’s murdered.

I’m reading a book (The Body Keeps the Score) about trauma and what is now known as PTSD. DCI Bone (our central character with his name on the cover) is suffering from his hard-bitten past, PTSD. In the Callander cop shop that’s something to be joked about.  

Oh, the banter among his loyal team. Detective Sergeant Sarah Gillon is his trusted police partner. She has got his back and keeps colleague in line.

But, of course, with one local geography teacher down… it will need to be mapped out what happened in Bracklinn Falls. Read on.