His investigation leads him to a circle of irresistibly charming men. Gay, posh and eager to prove himself in the Metropolitan Police, James has allowed himself few chances for romance.īut when the murder of barrister Maria Curzon-Whyte lands in his lap, all that changes. But the advancement of his career has come at a cost. › showBitter Legacy #1 – Dal Maclean – Goodreadsĭetective Sergeant James Henderson’s remarkable gut instincts have put him on a three-year fast track to becoming an inspector. Pick it up and let me know what you think! I’m highly recommending this story to all lovers of contemporary murder mystery romance. Only the somewhat rushed ending and epilogue felt out of place given how much the rest of the book was well layered. I thought the book was incredibly well written, the mysteries complex, and the ending just as shattering as you would expect.
The reader is there, feeling it all.Īnd not just Jamie’s emotional state, but that of others we come to care about through the cases and the Department James works in. Maclean’s writing is absolutely up to the challenges of painting a portrait of Jamie undergoing immense changes, handling unbearable grief, feeling great joy, and then the numbness of shattering death. He’s a great character, one that as a narrator, only gets better as his feelings about the cases and people involved serve not only to pull us into his reality but all the others that he’s becoming closer to. So James is a man who’s going through some very hard emotionally fraught issues as well as finding himself alone in a new career, new place with high expectations.
Those came from his extremely wealthy father who cast him out when James refused to follow the family program as far as career and heterosexual marriage. James or Jamie as he gets called is out as gay in his unit, with no repercussions. He’s being fast tracked for promotion if he doesn’t mess it up. The story is narrated by Detective Sergeant James Henderson, an up and coming officer in a Murder Investigation Unit.
There’s more than one tragedy here, multidimensional victims and equally strong monsters. You have to be someone who enjoys the minutiae of police work, especially the tiniest of details laid down, that might be the one thing that helps solves the case later on in the story. Especially when the novel’s storylines and characters turns out to be so riveting and absolutely beautifully executed.ĭal Maclean’s Bitter Legacy, the first book in a series of the same name, is a gripping tale of multiple murders, intense law enforcement investigations, with a upcoming Detective’s emotional journey into passion, loss, grief, and love. Murder mysteries are a favorite trope so discovering a new author and series of both made my day.
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