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Welsh DC Ffion Morgan (last seen in A Game of Lies, 2023) is on deck in picturesque Cwem Coed when a realtor visiting for a work retreat is murdered. Ffion has her work cut out for her: the victim’s coworkers are shady, and her husband raises red flags. The investigation is a worthy distraction from Ffion’s unsuccessful house hunting and avoiding next steps in her relationship with hunky British DS Leo Brady. Meanwhile, across the nearby border in Cheshire, Leo is investigating a high-priority string of violent burglaries in The Hill, an elite enclave featured in a viral true crime podcast. The podcast is re-examining the unsolved murders of Peter and Stephanie Carmichael in their mansion on The Hill, and as Leo’s burglar’s violence escalates he considers whether his quarry is hunting something related to the Carmichael murders. MacIntosh’s third Ffion Morgan mystery offers a witty take on social climbing along with a tangle of connected whodunits that follow satisfying classic tropes. Highly recommended, especially for readers seeking mysteries featuring popular media elements.
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A spate of robberies collides with murders past and present in Mackintosh’s solid third outing for Welsh Det. Constable Ffion Morgan (after A Game of Lies). When a woman is found dead in a kayak on the bank of the Awen River, near the border between Wales and England, Ffion’s superiors assign her the case. At the same time, Ffion’s boyfriend, Det. Sgt. Leo Brady, is looking into a series of burglaries just across the water in an exclusive Tottenham neighborhood called the Hill, where his social climbing ex-wife lives alongside influential bankers, professional soccer players, and bored housewives. While the lovers work on their respective cases, Ffion ravenously consumes the latest season of the popular true crime podcast Without Conviction, which covers a gruesome decade-old double homicide that went cold—and might hold key information about Ffion’s current investigation. Mackintosh smoothly braids her three main plot threads, infusing the action with humor and surprising sweetness. Though it’s not quite as ambitious as previous installments, mystery readers of all stripes will find something to like. (Sept.)
