Book (Trail) of the Month – August 2025

Submitted: 30th July 2025

Book (Trail) of the Month – August 2025

Where is good to travel in August via a book? This month, it’s a crime thriller and …unsettling but it’s goes to some very interesting places…geographically or otherwise….

Watching You Helen Fields

The book?

When a body is found, it is only the beginning. Soon there will be seven more.

In the city’s hospital, renowned surgeon Beth Waterfall is grieving.

Her beloved only daughter fell prey to a vicious stalker a year previously – and now he’s coming for her too.

Edinburgh’s police are desperate.

After one body comes another, and then another. The brutal deaths are all seemingly unconnected, yet DS Lively and forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine know they are dealing with a serial killer – they just need to prove it.

But time is running out, and Beth Waterfall already looks set to be the next victim…

Why?

Just look at these lovely places in the novel…

Boyd’s Entry (sounds dodgy but is a real alley way in Edinburgh)
Leith
North Bridge
Jupiter Artland – sounds posh but there are some VERY weird things in the wood at the back…

Edinburgh City Mortuary, Cowgate – only time I would want to go in here is in a novel..

What to love

There’s something in this novel that I have never come across before and it’s fascinating! This is an author who really needs to be read more widely and this is a cracking book to start with if you haven’t read her before!