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|summary=The first in a new crime series, set in Sheffield. It's a five-star cracker and I can't wiat wait for the next book. Highly recommended.

Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who some think that he's lucky to be there, given that he decked a superior officer. He's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's a scar on his face to prove it - and the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pride. Either way, he's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.

There was a tenuous reason for his involving himself when a body was found bricked up at The Old Vicarage: it had obviously been there a few years. And Inspector Jim Doggett isn't completely against the idea of having Tyler on the case. It was the slim chance of getting back into real policing that persuaded Tyler not to distance himself from the enquiry when he realised that the son of the dead man (and a possible suspect) is the young man he spent the night with only yesterday. Oscar Cartwright hasn't said anything directly, but you're on tenterhooks wondering when he's going to say the wrong thing.

If ''Firewatching'' appeals to you then you might also enjoy [[When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1) by Helen Sedgwick]]. For more crime with an LGBT element try [[The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt|The Blind Goddess]] and [[Blessed Are Those Who Thirst by Anne Holt|Blessed Are Those Who Thirst]], both by Anne Holt and [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves]]. You might also enjoy [[XX by Angela Chadwick]] or [[A Portrait of the Arsonist as a Young Man by Andrew McGuinness]]. [[Russ Thomas's DS Adam Tyler series in chronological order]] {{amazontext|amazon=1471180921}}