Drumfire Book

Fran Harman and Mark Turner have problems both at home at work. Mark has moved into Fran's cottage allowing his daughter to move into his house temporarily with her two children while she sorts out her marital problems. Mark is convinced there is something wrong with the water supply in Fran's cottage and it seems other villagers agree.

ran and Mark need to sort out a firm to renovate and restore their newly purchased Georgian former rectory and Simon Gates - former protégé of Fran's and now her boss - suggests a firm he knows. That's all ignoring the crime side of things. Fran is tasked with reviewing a case which is coming up for appeal and she soon finds that even though two men were found guilty of murdering the wife of one of them there was very little evidence. She's also curious about an apparent suicide.

Definitely more than enough for both Fran and Mark to be going on with and things can only get worse before they get better. This is a fast paced and well written crime story with plenty of interweaving strands and themes and an interesting background. I enjoyed reading it even though I read it completely out of the published order of the series. This is number three in the series. Clearly the books can be read out of order but I think they are best read in order of publication as this one leads straight into the next one which is 'Burying the Past.'