A review by markreadsbooks_sg
The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson

4.0

I got The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson, for free from good reads for a fair and honest review.

The Binding Room is an investigation into the death of a respected pastor who is found with multiple stab wounds.

However the case soon becomes more complicated when a secret room of the church is found containing a man who is only just alive and.

The Binding Room is definitely not on the cosy side of the mystery genre, especially with the description of the dead bodies that are discovered in the novel.
In addition, I do not normally post trigger warnings in my reviews as each person has different things that will trigger them and as an individual I feel that I would never be able to mention all the individual triggers.
Having said that this novel does deal with mental health issues throughout this novel in areas such as PTSD and Schizophrenia amongst others.

As for the story itself with the Binding Room being at its heart a police procedural as a reader there are the usual tropes in this genre although the story never feels like Nadine Matheson the writer is writing by numbers as the investigation portrayed in the story never feels predictable.

I am not saying that there are twists in the story that are both so setup that as a reader you can see them coming from miles away, while all the socks and surprises were all typical of this genre and never came out of the blue if you picked up on the clues.
In addition to the crime and the investigation in the novel do give the story the is the investigators themselves and in the Binding Room with the main Detective, Inspector Anjelica Henly, and her colleges really added to the enjoyment of the story.

While the novel does examine some of the personal lives of the detectives, this does not affect the story in any way, but enhances the story by making them all human with difficulties of their own.

Having said that I would recommend The Binding Room by Nadine Mathesonto any readers who like police procedures that are hard hitting will definitely enjoy this stoey,