The Distant Echo by Val McDermid

On a freezing morning in Fife four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. The only suspects are the four young men  now stained with her blood.
25 years later police mount a cold case review.  when two of the four die in suspicious circumstances, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice.
I love the way VMcD writes.
was a bit disappointed with the outcome of this though.

Flesh and blood by Patricia Cornwell

I read this during lockdown 2020
A Dr Kay Scarpetta nvel.
I must admit skim reading this one , it involves a sniper tats all I can glean from it 

The Light Between the Oceans by M L Stedman

I read this during the 2020 lockdown.
It was given to me by Kay, not the usual type of book I would have picked up myself
A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper's island. it holds a dead man and a baby. the two slanders who have lost several babies to miscarriage decide to keep the baby as their own.
Happy and devastatingly sad consequences happen after their decision.
A happy and sad and moving portrayal of mother child relationships

The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell

I read this in lockdown 2020
A Kurt Wallender novel (the last)
Early one morning Hakan Van Enke goes off for his normal walk and doesn't come back.
A story of family intrigue.
Hakans wife goes missing , their son is the partner of Wallenders daughter and father to his grandchild.
Lots of plot lines, very interesting, moves alog at a pace .
Very enjoyable read

TheSlap

I saw this on box set so have not bothered to read the book, very interesting story about a man slapping a young boy at a family bbq. He was swinging a baseball bat around, the man was scared for his own son, the child's mother is a snowflake raising an entitled snowflake.  The man is not all he seems to be as he beats his wife and is a crook to boot.
Complicated family saga.

The Dust that falls from Dreams by Louis De Bernieries

I read this for September 2019 book club.

Oh Dear! I have read and loved lots of other books by this author, but was very disappointed in this one.  Published in 2015 I felt it got on the 100 years since WWI bandwagon.  Read like something out of Downton Abbey .....I felt it was cliched, lacked the grit and realism of his other works.