Hemlock
Published July 16, 2026
Reviewed by Julie Campbell
Second in the new Eden Driscoll series, published in the UK. I enjoyed this entry more than the first, but there is something still missing. More on that later. Eden is still in Teignmouth, raising his nephew, Finn, with little chance of returning to his old life in London and at the Met. He is approached by a man named Richard Morrison who enlists his help in finding out who has been trying to kill him. Morrison then disappears. As Eden begins to look into Morrison’s story, the people around Morrison begin to die.
My only real problem with this series is that even after two books, I still have no sense at all of who Eden Driscoll is. Although he is supposedly on the young side, he comes across as middle aged and beige. So very, very beige. We do get some more of his backstory in this one, but still, there is no
“there” there. He doesn’t have hobbies, or like, or dislikes for that matter. In the end, it is a good storyline weakened by two dimensional characters.