⭐️ 5 ⭐️

Many thanks to NetGalley, Bookouture and Carla Kovach for the eARC, in exchange for an honest review.

The Broken Ones by Carla Kovach is the eighth book in the DI Gina Harte series. I haven’t read the previous books, but that wasn’t a problem as it can be read and enjoyed perfectly as a standalone.

From the very beginning I was hooked. It’s well written, fast-paced and full of suspense - with twists and turns aplenty and more red herrings than you can shake a stick at!
The wintery setting really adds to the creepy atmosphere of the story.
The diverse characters are likeable and well developed. I never guessed the identity of the killer, which is a huge plus point for me. A real edge of your seat read.

Just fabulous - one of the best books I’ve read this year.

If you’re looking for a fast-paced, unputdownable crime thriller, this is the book for you.
I would highly recommend.

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Another police procedural with a tense and gritty storyline. I love police procedurals but I think with the amount that’s being published every day and how much of them I read, everything feels a bit repetitive, formulaic, and even forced. This has everything that a thriller and a police procedural should have, interesting plot, gripping mystery, twists, and a perfect balance of personal stories of the detectives running in the background (although you need to be aware of it a bit from the previous books otherwise it just disrupts the flow of the main story), but still for some reason, this just did not click with me and I had to push through to get to the end. But mostly I'm just going to put blame it on the fact that I'm an avid reader of this genre, it takes a bit more for me to swoon over it. I think a new reader or someone who does not often this genre is bound to love it. It gets a bit dramatic at the end and I could see how it was going to turn up, like I said, very formulaic, but I think this should look very good on a screen :)

Thanks to Netgalley, Bookouture publishers, and the author for the eARC. All opinions are my own.

Sometimes it is what isn't in a story rather than what is in a story that makes you enjoy reading it. With this being the 8th installment in the Gina Harte series, I was very excited to read very little about her ex-husband. Yes, what he did and how she ended it will always be a part of DI Harte but this installment gives me hope that she has stopped letting him continue to control her life. Please! Because other than that, I really enjoy the characters in this series and the crimes that they investigate. The premise of the story isn't new but Ms. Kovach was able to still keep the reader guessing until the end. I am happy to say that I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for a copy of the book. This review is my own opinion.

A complex, gripping and highly entertaining addition to this series.
I like Carla Kovach's style of writing and storytelling.
The plot is full of twists and turns and kept me guessing.
I liked the characters, interesting and well thought.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Thanks to Netgalley, Bookouture and the author, for this ARC of The Broken Ones, number 8 in the Gina Harte series. I really enjoyed this. It’s a perfect twisty, turny, read, with lots of possible villains. In fact it’s so cleverly written at one stage I even got one of the victims wrong as you are presented with a choice of two. You are led down lots of false paths, a range of characters with lots to hide, though,not all of it relevant to the case in hand and all the while the subplots simmer beautifully below.
Gina seems in a slightly better place this time, not as angst ridden as we’ve seen her about her past. She’s still at a crossroads in her personal life but that very much takes a backseat as the book concentrates more on the main plot. The beauty of this being we know the subplots got lots more to give in the future!