📖 Blog Tour ~ Broken Bones by John Carson

Boldwood Books
11 November 2025

DCI Liam Brodie #1

Thanks to Boldwood Books and Rachel’s Random Resources
for the book and invitation to the blog tour

 

Some bodies just won't stay buried...

After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle - and solve - the hardest of cases. But when he’s assigned to Fife’s Major Investigation Team, he soon realises that he’s walking into a minefield. The previous DCI is missing, presumed dead, and the case he’s been called in to lead becomes dangerously close to home.

When a child’s bones are unearthed beneath the floorboards of an old house in Fife - the same house where his girlfriend, psychologist Ruth Calder, grew up as a foster daughter - Brodie uncovers a tangled web of lies and jealousy. Ruth’s foster mother, now gripped by dementia, holds fragments of the truth but in a community haunted by its history, Brodie must navigate betrayal and buried guilt to bring a decades-old secret to light.

📖 My Review... 

This gritty Scottish police procedural gets off to a cracking good start. Central to the investigation is DCI Liam Brodie who has been placed in charge of Fife’s Major Investigation Team as the previous DCI has gone missing, presumed dead. However, it’s not just the missing DCI which causes concern as Brodie and his team are soon engulfed in a complex murder investigation which may have links to a case Brodie worked on three years ago in Edinburgh when a particularly nasty serial killer was brought to justice.

Capturing my attention from the start, I enjoyed getting to know DCI Brodie and learning more about his relationship with his partner, psychologist Ruth Calder. The way in which the plot becomes entwined on a very personal level to Brodie and Ruth makes the story all the more compelling. As with any new series there is a certain amount of scene setting and a sense of getting to know the relationships between the major characters. There’s a realistic sense of police camaraderie and whilst the language is, at times, colourful , their commitment to seeing justice done is always paramount. DCI Brodie is an interesting character, who is fully committed to his job and is determined to root out evil, I’m sure we’ll see his character progress over time.

Well written, with strong attention to detail, Broken Bones is a really good start to this new Scottish crime series and I look forward to seeing where DCI Liam Brodie will go to in False Witness, which is due to be published in April 2026.

About the Author

John Carson is the multi-million, bestselling author of numerous Scottish-set crime series.

Facebook: @john.carsonauthor

Instagram: @johncarsonauthor

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