Currently Reading - The Blood Detective, Dan Waddell

The author of The Blood Detective - Dan Waddell is a journalist who has published ten non-fiction books, including Who Do You Think You Are? - tied in with the BBC TV series (which we've become quite firm fans of).

Dodging the prologue:

"Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster, stiff from lack of sleep, dragged his tall, weary frame from his brand-new Toyota Corolla, feeling the familiar ache of being hauled from his bed in the middle of the night.  Even though he had stopped smoking six months ago he felt a pang for nicotine.  Arriving at a murder scene had been one of those occasions when he would habitually spark up; part of a ritual, a summoning of will.  He cracked his knuckles and sniffed the cold air."