Bleeding Heart Yard: Breathtaking new thriller from Ruth Galloway's author

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A 21-year class reunion at an esteemed high school ends in murder. And another murder shortly afterward points to an old secret coming to light. Due to the new London setting, and since Harbinder is the only character in this (apart from a brief appearance by her parents) who featured in this one, Bleeding Heart Yard could easily be read as a standalone. It was a pleasure to read this thrilling novel, and has me so excited for the next in the series. I adore the character of Harbinder. She's smart, tough, but also trying to forge her way in the law enforcement world where she is "other"--she's a lesbian person of color. She's not exactly sure of herself in the new setting, but I saw the growth of her confidence as the investigation progressed. Props to Griffiths for not being content to leave a character in a familiar place and allowing her to grow. In this book she finds love--and the ending epilogue left me with a huge smile on my face. The interaction between the members of the team is excellent as well, I always dread books where there's a ton of office politics and this book doesn't really have that. The team works together and plays off of each other incredibly well. And Cassie of course, the only friend who doesn’t turn up is Sonoma who is now the school principal. Before the night is out Garfield Rice is murdered. Cassie cannot be on the case as she present at the reunion.

Cassie Fitzherbert (Note: it’s Fitzgerald in the official book blurb so may be changed upon publication) – Member of “The Group”. A police officer, and one of newly-appointed DI Harbinder Kaur’s DS’s. Cassie has a massive secret in her past that she’s kept hidden for twenty-one years – in 1998 she killed a fellow pupil. It is all very standard mystery writing and there is nothing wrong with that, especially as Griffiths always writes well. Despite a teeny bit of disappointment in the change of direction I will still be one of the first in line to read the next book.When Harbinder is assigned the new case, Cassie, although not actively involved as she is a “potential witness”, attempts to steer the investigation into thinking Rice was murdered for political reasons, rather than his death being linked to David Moore’s. Then another of her old friends, who was also at the reunion, is killed. Is it possible the same person killed all three victims? That being said, I did enjoy reading some of the characters. I enjoyed the relationship between Anna and Chris, and particularly had a soft spot for Star. Izzy was irritating, but I felt that added to her overall character of her being the successful actress. I also really appreciated the use of a real life location for the setting of the murder as it connected it to the real world. And, now that Harbinder has finally moved out of her parents home, at the age of 38, will she also find the courage to introduce her traditional Sikh parents, to her first official girlfriend?

Elly Griffiths’ third Harbinder Kaur mystery finds the detective inspector eager to prove herself after relocating from West Sussex to London. Her latest case begins when a reunion at the posh Manor Park School in Chelsea results in politician Garfield Rice’s murder.

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years before, the woman now known as Detective Sergeant Cassie Fitzherbert believes she was at least partially responsible for the death of David Moore, a fellow pupil at Manor High School, a day before they were due to receive their A-Level results. Then, when Cassie attends a school reunion party, another of her former classmates, controversial right-wing MP Garfield Rice is also murdered. There are also several errors, such as here in ch. 1: "... the tree outside Harbinder's window is turnng from green to amber to red, like a traffic light in reverse". That IS the sequence ! In reverse it would be red, red and amber and then green. The error is repeated at the start of ch. 25. Then we find out that twenty one years earlier David Moore, another student was murdered. Was it an accident or something more sinister?

When Cassie Fitzgerald was at school in the late 90s, she and her friends killed a fellow student. Almost twenty years later, Cassie is a happily married mother who loves her job—as a police officer. She closely guards the secret she has all but erased from her memory. The small, intimate collection of suspects makes this mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie: Rather than a wide-ranging hunt for a killer, Bleeding Heart Yard feels cozy and local. However, the book is also filled with unreliable narrators, as members of The Group struggle to determine which of their memories are real since they may have been tainted by time or trauma or lost to time all together. Old diaries offer clues, but many of the characters have the same amount of questions as Harbinder herself. This is the third installment in this series with DI Harbinder Kaur. In this one, she’s made the big move to London and is finally away from her parents. I found that she really grew in this one personally, which made for good character development. Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It's in Cassie's interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding.We’re police officers,’ said Harbinder, already terrified by the traffic on the South Circular. ‘We love crime.’ Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It's in Cassie's interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like it has nothing to do with Manor Park and she seems to be succeeding. And finally there is the casual dismissal of all Tories as venal lying bastards. Many of them are, but the same is true of many politicians more generally. If we are going to have an un-written assumption that the left is always right, climate change is an unavoidable catastrophe and other woke positions are unassailable, then I am afraid this author will become a no-go area. MY THOUGHTS: Bleeding Heart Yard - what an evocative title! It refers to a courtyard in Holborn, London, where Lady Elizabeth Hatton was murdered in the seventeenth century. As well as the “school reunion” connection, Garfield Rice has been receiving threatening letters of a political nature, signed Bleeding Heart. Garfield attended several prominent dinners regarding climate-change near the London landmark of Bleeding Heart Yard.