RYAN'S MOST EXPLOSIVE CASE YET . . .

It's been five months since a killer walked free and DCI Ryan is preparing to leave Newcastle to hunt him down -- this time, for good.

But Ryan's plans are scuppered when events take a dramatic turn and he is forced to stay and face his past one last time, or watch a friend suffer the consequences.

Amid the chaos, another killer is preparing to strike. When the Tyne Bridge explodes, Ryan's team are faced with a frantic race to uncover a deadly foe who won't stop until every bridge is burned, along with everybody on it . . .

Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunit set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape.

I grew up in the North East (when there were only five bridges :-) and stumbled across this series of books by accident. I was intrigued by the first book Holy Island with murders on Lindisfarne, and then with Sycamore Gap, set on Hadrian's Wall.

Obviously I'm hooked because Seven Bridges is the eighth in the series . . .