Kindle British & Irish Mystery Book Club discussion

Nominations are open for the October Group Read.
Nominations will close on Thursday 19th September 2024 at midnight GMT. If voting is then required a poll on the nominated books will run after nominations close until and including Friday 27th September 2024 at midnight GMT.

Rules:
1) All nominations in this thread please
2) Please when nominating a book make sure even if it is a book in a series that it can be read as a standalone and not all the series required first.
3) No books we have read in the last 12 months and our list of books read as group nominations can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
4) Where possible try to do the same with authors and not one we have read in the last 12 months.
5) No self nominations from authors please.
6) It must qualify as a British Mystery as we are a British Mystery Book Club. If you want to know more on what qualifies then please read the thread "What Is A British Mystery?" where we had a discussion on this and decided. It is at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
7) If you nominate and the book becomes a group read it would be good if you could be the discussion leader on it for that month.
8) Any problems or queries then message me.

Please note the bookshelf to check books is the old group for the moment as we don't have a year on here yet.

My nomination is the first in the Chief Inspector Shadow series A Long Shadow [bookcover:A Long Shadow|56787544 by H. L. Marsay:

Old sins cast long shadows…

When the bodies of a young, homeless girl and a girl who disappeared thirty years ago are found on the same day, residents in the historic city of York are aghast. It seems unlikely the two cases are related, and yet some of the same players knew both victims. As Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow and his eager new partner, Sergeant Jimmy Chang, dive into their investigation, they uncover a complicated web of pop stars, pub owners, shopkeepers and old school friends who each have something to hide.

John Shadow is a man of contradictions. A solitary figure who shuns company, but is a keen observer of all he meets. A lover of good food, but whose fridge is almost always empty. He prefers to work alone and is perpetually trying to dodge his partner, who’s full of energy, modern ideas and theories.

But as the two men gradually learn to work together to solve the case, it’s clear that the past is never as far away as you think.

My nomination this month is
In the Blink of an Eye.
First in the Kat and Lock series by Jo Callaghan.
In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds.
Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye. 
DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, Kat's instincts come up against Lock's logic. But when the two missing person's cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help Kat when the case gets personal. 

AI versus human experience. 
Logic versus instinct.
With lives on the line can the pair work together before someone comes another statistic? 
In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human. 

Ok 2 good books nominated and both Group Reads for October.

Nominations closed

Thanks Helen and David. I look forward to reading both books.

Ah, very good. Here is the link on Amazon, if anyone is interested in using that. It is not free, but it's not terribly expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Shadow-Ch...

It's an easy read, with a "curmudgeonly" detective that is being dragged into modern policing, but the author doesn't overdo the trope. And the city of York emerges almost as a character, too. Happy reading!