With The Bone Garden (Orion, £22) Simon Beckett, Orion delivers his customary fierce outing for Forensic expert David Hunter, set in a community, with long buried secrets. This may be familiar terrain, but Beckett knows exactly what he’s doing. If your taste is for strong, pungent writing, then Becket is for you. As far back as Whispers of the Dead, he supplied all the adroitly orchestrated tension we now expect from him and David Hunter.
The Bone Garden (Orion, £22) Simon Beckett
