The Reading Room | 27 September 2022

Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths Rosemary’s Book of the Week Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths (Elly Griffiths) DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret-but it’s one she’s deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school, she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. Many years later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer. One day her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice,

One Woman’s War by Christine Wells Victoire “Paddy’’ Bennett walks into the Admiralty’s Room 39, home to the Naval Intelligence Division, expecting nothing more than a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But soon her job is so much more, and when Fleming proposes a daring plot to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans, he requests the newlywed Paddy’s help. The bright, lively young woman jumps at the chance to work as an agent in the field,

Day’s End by Garry Disher HIRSCH’s rural beats wide. Daybreak today’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. In the time of the virus, Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under strain; people getting close to the edge. Today he’s driving an international visitor around; Janne Van Sant, whose backpacker son went missing while the borders were closed. They’re checking