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Gripping...Fiona Griffiths kept me hooked to the last page and left me hungry for more -- RACHEL ABBOTT
Compelling and claustrophic, Without a doubt, Fiona Griffiths is one of crime's most memorable heroines -- SARAH HILARY
Exceptional ... Absorbing ... Fiona's narrative sears the pages. ― KIRKUS REVIEWS
Compelling ... a new crime talent to treasure ― DAILY MAIL
In a word - brilliant. One of the most enjoyable crime novels I've read in a while -- JAMES OSWALD
Very exciting ... well informed and well written. Read this novel. ― Literary Review
Fiona Griffiths is one of the most unusual and engaging characters in British crime fiction. Those who haven't yet encountered Fiona will be drawn into a beautifully crafted world -- SINEAD CROWLEY
Praise for gripping, atmosphere Fiona Griffiths crime thriller series:
Chilling, atmospheric and so gripping it hurts. You won't read a better crime novel this year -- MARK EDWARDS
Gritty, compelling ... a [police] procedural unlike any other you are likely to read this year. ― USA Today
Fiona Griffiths may be the most fascinating protagonist in fiction. She is similar to Lisbeth Salander, an intelligent but profoundly damaged young woman, but Fiona is less hostile and more curious, sort of a good guy sociopath. I couldn't put it down. This is definitely one of my very favorite thriller series. I love this character and I hope I have the chance to read many more. Harry Bingham is a genius and one hell of a writer. ― Audrey, Top 500 Reviewer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Compelling and claustrophic, Without a doubt, Fiona Griffiths is one of crime's most memorable heroines -- SARAH HILARY
Exceptional ... Absorbing ... Fiona's narrative sears the pages. ― KIRKUS REVIEWS
Compelling ... a new crime talent to treasure ― DAILY MAIL
In a word - brilliant. One of the most enjoyable crime novels I've read in a while -- JAMES OSWALD
Very exciting ... well informed and well written. Read this novel. ― Literary Review
Fiona Griffiths is one of the most unusual and engaging characters in British crime fiction. Those who haven't yet encountered Fiona will be drawn into a beautifully crafted world -- SINEAD CROWLEY
Praise for gripping, atmosphere Fiona Griffiths crime thriller series:
Chilling, atmospheric and so gripping it hurts. You won't read a better crime novel this year -- MARK EDWARDS
Gritty, compelling ... a [police] procedural unlike any other you are likely to read this year. ― USA Today
Fiona Griffiths may be the most fascinating protagonist in fiction. She is similar to Lisbeth Salander, an intelligent but profoundly damaged young woman, but Fiona is less hostile and more curious, sort of a good guy sociopath. I couldn't put it down. This is definitely one of my very favorite thriller series. I love this character and I hope I have the chance to read many more. Harry Bingham is a genius and one hell of a writer. ― Audrey, Top 500 Reviewer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
In her third outing in this acclaimed series, DC Fiona Griffiths' damaged psyche is given its sternest test as she volunteers to go undercover. Unabridged edition.
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About the Author
Harry Bingham is a successful author as well as running The Writer's' Workshop, an editorial consultancy for first-time writers, and organising the York Festival of Writing. He lives near Oxford.
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Review
LOVE STORY, WITH MURDERS boasts what must be the most startling protagonist in modern crime fiction ... Brutal, freakish and totally original - SUNDAY TIMESExpertly crafted - THE TIMESWith Detective Constable Fiona "Fi" Griffiths, Harry Bingham finds a sweet spot in crime fiction - a female protagonist with stunted emotions, a passion for protecting women (think Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander), outsider status (think Denise Mina's "Paddy" Meehan), sheer guts, and an unstoppable drive to follow her own instincts even when it means breaking every rule in the book (think Lee Childs's Jack Reacher) - BOSTON GLOBEThis compelling crime novel ... amply proves the freshness and flair that he [Bingham] has brought to the police procedural. Written with unexpected warmth and wry observation, it brings its gruesome story to life without turning the stomach ... Surprisingly delicate, it weaves a sinuous, seductive spell and confirms we have a new crime talent to treasure - DAILY MAILBingham has gotten inside the mind of his clever, neurotic heroine so well as to make her seem entirely credible ... An interesting, unusual and in some ways even moving crime novel - LITERARY REVIEWThis cleverly plotted police procedural introduces a likeable, maverick detective destined for a bestseller following - CHOICEDC Fiona Griffiths is ditsy, funny, stubborn and sharp ... Bingham provides a spirited Welsh response to the Scottish domination of British crime fiction - THE TIMES
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From the Publisher
I'm Harry Bingham. I write crime novels and love it. When I'm not doing that, I run the Writers' Workshop, a literary consultancy. I live in Oxfordshire, England, but I spent a lot of my childhood in Wales, where my crime novels are set. Things I love apart from writing: wild swimming, rock-climbing, walking and dogs. I'm married, have four kids, and I love my life. To stay in touch visit www.harrybingham.com or on Twitter @harryonthebrink
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Product details
- ASIN : B00FYUM554
- Publisher : Orion (13 March 2014)
- Language : English
- File size : 2804 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 470 pages
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Enjoyed more of Fiona in this book but it did become a little too fanciful in her exploits But.... Very well written and the main players are well drawn
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Bizgen
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best crime novel I've read for years, well plotted, taut and edge-of-seat exciting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2019Verified Purchase
This is probably the best crime thriller I've read for some years. Extremely well plotted, everything hangs together. The detective has a similar problem to the heroine of that wonderful Swedish series, The Bridge. I carried on until I finished it at 2.00 am - and then, in case I had missed anything, went back to re read the last six chapters!
I read them in sequence so that I get the background right. Each one has improved. Can't see how the author, Harry Bingham, will be able to keep this pace up, I hope he does. It's very visual, I can see it as a film, but in a way, I hope they don't make one, because film makers usually ruin things. I very rarely give 5 stars, as you'll know if you read my other reviews.
A really good read and I can't recommend it highly enough.
I read them in sequence so that I get the background right. Each one has improved. Can't see how the author, Harry Bingham, will be able to keep this pace up, I hope he does. It's very visual, I can see it as a film, but in a way, I hope they don't make one, because film makers usually ruin things. I very rarely give 5 stars, as you'll know if you read my other reviews.
A really good read and I can't recommend it highly enough.

Annie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 August 2018Verified Purchase
What a page turning success of a book!
I enjoyed the first in this series, thought the second was better but this one has had me completely gripped. That sleep deprived kind of gripped you get when you discover a great book. Harry Bingham's writing style is so easy to read and the pace of this book never lets up - I've spent the last two hours in a state of heightened anxiety. Brilliant! So good, I can even forgive the slight over-use of Welsh christian names.
Fiona Griffiths is a great, gutsy character, developed carefully throughout the series but the addition of Fiona Grey and Jessica was deftly handled and believable. The baddie was satisfyingly bad.
The best read I've had in a while. Great job, Mr B!
I enjoyed the first in this series, thought the second was better but this one has had me completely gripped. That sleep deprived kind of gripped you get when you discover a great book. Harry Bingham's writing style is so easy to read and the pace of this book never lets up - I've spent the last two hours in a state of heightened anxiety. Brilliant! So good, I can even forgive the slight over-use of Welsh christian names.
Fiona Griffiths is a great, gutsy character, developed carefully throughout the series but the addition of Fiona Grey and Jessica was deftly handled and believable. The baddie was satisfyingly bad.
The best read I've had in a while. Great job, Mr B!

Tales of a Librarian
4.0 out of 5 stars
Our favourite, off-kilter Welsh DCI returns
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2015Verified Purchase
This is easily the best in a great series with strange, off-kilter heroine, Fiona Griffiths. One time sufferer of Cotard's syndrome, Fiona has a special connection to people who have died, especially by untimely and violent means. Driven, fiercely intelligent and obsessive, the smallest smudge of a clue sends Fiona off in search of perpetrators. Yet for all that she is honest, likeable, irreverent and considerate. One of the greatest touches about Fiona's character, aside from her strong, compelling voice, is the way she is so insightful when it comes to sizing up people, working out what they think and feel, yet really has trouble working out what she feels herself.
This was a bit slower starting than 'Talking to the Dead' or 'Love Story with Murders', but worth the build up pacing wise. As Fiona goes undercover, we readers are likewise enveloped and smothered in this dangerous, underground world, indentity on top of identity unil we're wandering through webs of mystification. All in all a great read, well balanced, cunningly plotted, witty and with an unlikely girl heroine which makes this a crime novel unlike any other.
My only real criticism, and I'm sure Harry Bingham had a good reason for this, was an event that occurred almost at the end of the book. I was really quite put out as I wanted that minor matter to work out differently. Though not so put out that I won't be reading book four as soon as it's available. If you haven't read any of this series, line them up and take it from the top. You're in for a treat.
This was a bit slower starting than 'Talking to the Dead' or 'Love Story with Murders', but worth the build up pacing wise. As Fiona goes undercover, we readers are likewise enveloped and smothered in this dangerous, underground world, indentity on top of identity unil we're wandering through webs of mystification. All in all a great read, well balanced, cunningly plotted, witty and with an unlikely girl heroine which makes this a crime novel unlike any other.
My only real criticism, and I'm sure Harry Bingham had a good reason for this, was an event that occurred almost at the end of the book. I was really quite put out as I wanted that minor matter to work out differently. Though not so put out that I won't be reading book four as soon as it's available. If you haven't read any of this series, line them up and take it from the top. You're in for a treat.
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Loretta Milan
5.0 out of 5 stars
The easiest five stars I've ever awarded a book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2015Verified Purchase
Fiona Griffiths is by far the most original fictional detective I’ve come across. Very often, after reading crime, I’ve forgotten the lead characters’ names within a few days. Not this time! Fiona is far from a cardboard-cutout detective with alcohol issues (although she does enjoy the odd joint when undercover) because she is brilliantly complex. So, don’t expect Wales’ answer to Rebus. She’s deeply troubled yet warm and witty, a maverick without alienating superiors, fragile but courageous. She represents true characterisation mastery.
Fiona, who has only cried once in her adult life, is portrayed with great physiological depth without being dark. Even though Fiona battles with her identity and borderline psychosis, I never found her depressing. She is a strong woman. A survivor. She’s perfect for working undercover as she’s used to managing multiple forms of self and her demons give her drive. Men are attracted to her but not because she flutters her eyelashes. They’re intrigued by her. What I found particularly clever is the way that, at times, she shifts in and out of referring to herself in the third person, showing confusion rather than describing the fog. In fact, as much as this is a story of the search for a criminal mastermind, it’s a story of Fiona’s search for her identity.
As the book is written in the first person, I ask Harry what it’s like being in Fiona’s head. He tells me he enjoys writing from a female perspective although, as a result of his research, he’s now being ‘stalked’ online by adverts for damson dresses and breast enlargements. However, he tells me his biggest characterisation challenge isn’t gender but rather portraying the instability of Fiona’s mind. She is, after all, a woman who takes comfort in thinking about corpses, turning scenes that could be boring – like clothes shopping – into vibrant ones. He says he wants her to be dark and odd yet funny and interesting so readers want to stick by her and root for her. One of the things that is fun about Fiona is that she won’t simply tolerate rules and moan about them, she’ll break them and won’t care. There were times she made me cheer and think “you go girl!”
Despite Fiona’s vulnerabilities, the story by no means proceeds tentatively. There is mental and physical brutality. The story takes longer to build than most police procedurals because of the time taken to establish the characters but, as a result, when action ramps up, the experience is potent, with the intensity of a psychological thriller. It made me feel breathless with worry, concern and eventually fear for Fiona.
The plot is relatively simple in order to give space for characterisation and, although the book has a literary feel, the pace is saved largely because remarkable detail is built up with so few words. Harry, clearly not one to rely on a casual flick through a thesaurus, has a knack for picking precise words or choosing unusual objects that create a vivid image, such as a saucepan used to hammer in a nail and a hockey stick with which Fiona asks to be hit on purpose...
Read the full Literary Lightbox review here: www.literarylightbox.com/strange-death-of-fiona-griffiths-book-review
Fiona, who has only cried once in her adult life, is portrayed with great physiological depth without being dark. Even though Fiona battles with her identity and borderline psychosis, I never found her depressing. She is a strong woman. A survivor. She’s perfect for working undercover as she’s used to managing multiple forms of self and her demons give her drive. Men are attracted to her but not because she flutters her eyelashes. They’re intrigued by her. What I found particularly clever is the way that, at times, she shifts in and out of referring to herself in the third person, showing confusion rather than describing the fog. In fact, as much as this is a story of the search for a criminal mastermind, it’s a story of Fiona’s search for her identity.
As the book is written in the first person, I ask Harry what it’s like being in Fiona’s head. He tells me he enjoys writing from a female perspective although, as a result of his research, he’s now being ‘stalked’ online by adverts for damson dresses and breast enlargements. However, he tells me his biggest characterisation challenge isn’t gender but rather portraying the instability of Fiona’s mind. She is, after all, a woman who takes comfort in thinking about corpses, turning scenes that could be boring – like clothes shopping – into vibrant ones. He says he wants her to be dark and odd yet funny and interesting so readers want to stick by her and root for her. One of the things that is fun about Fiona is that she won’t simply tolerate rules and moan about them, she’ll break them and won’t care. There were times she made me cheer and think “you go girl!”
Despite Fiona’s vulnerabilities, the story by no means proceeds tentatively. There is mental and physical brutality. The story takes longer to build than most police procedurals because of the time taken to establish the characters but, as a result, when action ramps up, the experience is potent, with the intensity of a psychological thriller. It made me feel breathless with worry, concern and eventually fear for Fiona.
The plot is relatively simple in order to give space for characterisation and, although the book has a literary feel, the pace is saved largely because remarkable detail is built up with so few words. Harry, clearly not one to rely on a casual flick through a thesaurus, has a knack for picking precise words or choosing unusual objects that create a vivid image, such as a saucepan used to hammer in a nail and a hockey stick with which Fiona asks to be hit on purpose...
Read the full Literary Lightbox review here: www.literarylightbox.com/strange-death-of-fiona-griffiths-book-review
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blossom
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Welsh cracker indeed!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2017Verified Purchase
I will not write about the aspects everyone else who rates these books so highly have already done. What I find so very interesting is the way a man can write of a young woman so well. Not that FG is a normal young woman, so add her Cotard's Syndrome, plus the puzzlement of her background & we have a really complex character which HB seemingly writes of without any problems. What I particularly like about this book is the interaction between FG & a mostly nasty man. Stockhome Syndrome was not mentioned though, so whether she felt more for him than would be usual because of her medical background I wonder. I really enjoyed this aspect of the story & even felt an attraction for him myself. That is how well he was written. Before these books were written, I lived in The Mumbles, which is mentioned in Book 2, travelled to see friends in Cardiff frequently, even had a woman friend whose father is an almost model for Tom Griffiths!!
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