The Cardiff Killings

DI Jemima Huxley Crime Thriller, Book 1

MEET DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JEMIMA HUXLEY IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS.

An isolated manor house. Shallow woodland graves. A troubled female detective facing the biggest case of her career.

The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen Hall, just north of Cardiff.

DI Jemima Huxley and her partner, DS Dan Broadbent, race to the scene to discover that a second body has been unearthed in a shallow woodland grave. And the forensic team working the site believe this is just the start.

Jemima knows this is the biggest case of her career. But it couldn't have come at a worse time. Struggling to get pregnant, she is a woman on the edge, a woman who self-harms just to make it through the day. And with no one reported missing, no apparent motive and no obvious suspect, the investigation is anything but straightforward.

Eight graves. Eight dead women. All with pomegranate seeds placed inside their mouths.

When Jemima makes an unexpected breakthrough, she enters a desperate race against time to prevent more women dying.

Listeners of Simon McCleave, Rachel McLean, Ann Cleeves, Helen H. Durrant, Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons, L.J. Ross, J.M. Dalgliesh, Mark Edwards and Lynda La Plante will love Gaynor Torrance's feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.

©2022 Gaynor Torrance (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd

Main character has major mental health issues!

I was a annoyed with the main character. She chastised others for being selfish and unfeeling towards others but “pot, meet kettle”. She’s just as bad, if not worse. The story was okay but my difficulty in connecting with the the main character was a distraction from my reading enjoyment.

Tedious and unfocused

The narrative sounded like Chapters had been shuffled randomly. The last 70 minutes were content that should have been inserted along the way. I listened to them only out of sheer tenacity and dogged determination to see if this mess ever improved. Spoiler alert: it didn’t.