Ninety years ago young couple Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker transfixed Depression-era America with a cross-country crime spree that left behind a trail of robbed banks and dead policemen. In showbiz journalist-turned-author Fiona Cummin’s excellent new DC Saul Anguish novel, a callous British duo are chasing similar excitement and notoriety.

A schoolteacher stands frozen as a child struggles for life in her classroom. An ex-policeman is found shot in his home. A grieving and overwhelmed widow on a restorative vacation to the Scottish Highlands is given a horrifying ‘Sophie’s Choice’ after fate brings what’s left of her family into the path of a killer couple. Pick one of your children to die, or you all die. All of Us Are Broken is an emotional roller-coaster of a book from a terrific author who was recently shortlisted for the prestigious Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for her previous DC Saul Anguish novel.

This is even better. DC Anguish, who’s grown from troubled teen in Cummins’ earliest novels to troubled detective in her latest ones, is on their trail, but can he and forensic linguist Dr Clover March, aka ‘Blue’, save any of the Hardwicke family and other hostages in the lodge by the loch? Fascinating characters, nerve-racking action, and gut-punch twists; Cummins delivers a superb read.

Reviewed by Craig Sisterson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. Rattle, her debut novel, was the subject of a huge international auction and has been translated into several languages. It received widespread critical acclaim from authors and reviewers. She has since written bestsellers The Collector, The Neighbour, When I Was Ten and Into the Dark in which she introduces DC Saul Anguish, a brilliant young detective with a dark past. Fiona lives with her family in Essex.

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