This was a complex and complicated plot featuring two cops , DI Leah Hutch and DS Benjamin Randle and a supposedly over the hill journalist with the morals of an alley cat in Odie Reid. All have massive baggage and links between them as they are faced with an apparently motiveless and unsolvable murder.

It required a lot of concentration to keep up with what was happening but the effort was worthwhile and I think we have a new set of characters withe he potential for an enjoyable if challenging series.

I would like to thank the author, the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read an ARC of this book, I really enjoyed it.
This was a great debut and I look forward to reading more from this author.

This was a really impressive debut novel and the first in what I am sure will be a long series involving DI Leah Hutch and DS Benjamin Randle. I think my only concern is that this is definitely a crowded market at the moment (or whatever the literary equivalent of a market is) and I am not sure if it has anything that will make it stand out from the number of well-established series which are out there.

In Innocent Guilt, the story starts off with a bang - a woman walks into a police station covered in blood with a baseball bat but with no sense of what she has done or whose blood she is covered in.....and it doesn't get any less confusing.

Investigating the crime are DI Leah Hutch and DS Benjamin Randle, alongside journalist Odie who smells a story and also has a history with DI Hutch. The story moves along well, building tension and becomes very complicated but the book does tie up well with a great conclusion.

A really good debut novel and one I hope to see develop.

Thanks to Netgalley and Quercus Books | Quercus for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Wow wow wow!!!! I read this book in less than 24 hours! It was so gripping, it had me hooked and unable to put it down until I finished the last shocking page!!

Just when you think you think you know what will happen, bam, a new twist is introduced. I found myself shouting, ""What?!!"" so many times when reading this book.

If I could rate it more than 5 stars I would!
I really didn’t want this one to end!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars from me!

A brilliant debut novel - tells the story of Leah, a brilliant inspector recently transferred and investigating a strange murder that appears to be an open shut case, but all is not as it seems. I really enjoyed this story and in particular the other characters of Randle and Odie who provide insights into our main characters personality and background. Definitely worth a read and thanks to the author & publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review

Sometimes I wonder, do we really need more main characters with enough baggage to sink a big ship? Do we?
Turns out in this case, yes we do!!
I could not read enough of these two complicated women, and their relationships, and their hang ups. I'd have happily taken more baggage.
That's all before we got to the actual crime.... the crime itself kept me guessing almost to the end, but once we knew the why, the who was easy to guess.
I really enjoyed this one, and can only hope there's much more to come.
I feel there's more secrets to be revealed...