Dead Man's Stone

DCI Duncan Bone is still on sick leave when he receives a message to visit a dying man in a prison hospital. The man refuses to talk to anyone else. Bone reluctantly visits the prison where the man tells him where to find an item hidden at a former POW camp. The item is a biscuit box containing a photograph of a possible crime. Investigation proves that the victim in the photo is a teenager believed to have committed suicide in 1979.

It is agreed that DCI Bone can work from home to assist investigating the case. However, as some of the other people identified in the photo are murdered, he takes control of solving the crime - especially as a former senior police officer may be involved. Obviously the investigation is a race against time before more people are killed. 

The DCI Bone series consists of more than just thrilling crime stories as T G Reid allows the reader into the  lives of the main characters. Bone has been suffering from severe PTSD as a result of events in the first novel in the series and is striving to regain control of his life. His wife left him and in the second book she refused him access to their young son but part way through book three she reverses her previous decision. Mark Mullens' father has dementia and his attempts to keep an eye on his father and do his best to help him is another story throughout the novels. Another sub-plot is that DI Rhona Walker and her partner have adopted a baby girl.

Dead Man's Stone is another fast faced crime thriller by Scottish author, T G Reid. It is number 3 in the DCI Duncan Bone series.