Gone by M. K Turner

Gone

 by M. K Turner

Gone by M.K Turner was published on 8th December 2024.

My thanks to Marcia for sending me the book to review and to 

Random Things Resources for inviting me onto the tour

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a field near Reading, it is linked to a similar discovery five years earlier. Both women had lived in or near Bristol, both had boarded a train at Temple Meads bound for London, but never reached their destination, and both were found murdered within a few miles of each other. The cold case review team in Bristol, headed by DCI John Meredith, takes on the case.

With few leads to go on, and the passage of time, it was always going to be a tough case to solve. But with the team shorthanded, and Meredith’s personal life in freefall, the team questions if Meredith will be around to see the case through, and if their department can survive.

My Review

Although I have read, and enjoyed other books by Marcia, namely the J J Jenson series , this is the first of the Meredith & Hodge series that I have had the privilege to review and it won’t be the last. Gone is the seventeenth book in the series and it is incredibly emotive and heart rending on so many different levels. If you have read the previous books , which I haven’t, you will already have the scene set for some aspects of the story line linked to Meredith’s personal life. Though it does work as a standalone I do feel that it would have been better having read at least the last one and I will be looking to probably start at the beginning of the series and build up my knowledge of the characters as it is so good.
Gone is one of those books that , subject wise, is at times hard to read, whilst keeping you absolutely gripped from start to finish. Everything stands still and nothing else matters whilst you have this book in hand and , at just over two hundred and fifty pages, it can be read, as I did, in just one sitting.
There is so much going on in the book , because of the nature of  the storyline, that I found I just needed to take a few minutes every now and then, to focus on an individual and what they had been, or were going, through before I moved on.
The ending will also have you waiting in anticipation for the next book in the series and I hope it is not too long before Marcia enlightens us. I am so pleased I have found another good detective series to read.

About the Author

Marcia has enjoyed writing for many years, but originally only for pleasure and friends or family. Marcia wrote Murderous Mishaps for a friend, who after regaling her with all the latest gossip said 'they wouldn't believe you if you wrote it down.' So she did. All based on true stories, but totally exaggerated, of course.

Since then, Marcia has written the ongoing Meredith & Hodge crime series. The Bearing Witness series, which has a touch of the paranormal & a cozy mystery series, The Little Compton Mysteries. She is currently working on a new series, introducing JJ Jenson. There have also been a few standalone novels, but yes, they are all murder/mysteries. So far. . .

Marcia is married, with two children, two grandchildren, two German Shepherds. They live in Bristol, UK.

Marcia can be contacted at

http://mkturnerbooks.co.uk