The Scandal By Mari Hannah

‘The Scandal’ is the latest book by Mari Hannah in the Stone and Oliver series.

When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives at the crime scene, she gets more than she bargained for. She IDs the victim as Herald court reporter, thirty-two-year old Chris Adams she’s known since they were kids. With no eyewitnesses, the MIT are stumped. They discover that when Adams went out, never to return, he was working on a scoop that would make his name. But what was the story he was investigating? And who was trying to cover it up? As detectives battle to solve the case, they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head. The exposé has put more than Adams’ life in danger. And it’s not over yet.

The story is a bleak and miserable tale that makes for strangely entertaining reading as both Detectives work together to solve crimes, as well as have a banter together. As, this is my first book from the series, it wasn’t quite clear their background stories and sometimes, I did get a bit lost.

Saying that, I really enjoyed the story, the vivid descriptions as well as the witty narrative and the intricate police procedure detail. The characters were interesting, particularly Frankie Oliver, I loved her outspoken and tough cop attitude.

A fast paced thriller that really gripped my attention, ‘The Scandal’ is definitely the start of a new series that I’m going to look into.

You can buy ‘The Scandal’ from Amazon and is available to buy from good bookshops.