The novel opens with a fatally injured teenager, his life cut short in a single moment of rage in a tit for tat stabbing in Gallowstree Lane.
Detective Inspector Kieran Shaw is head of Operation Perseus - a covert police investigation into a powerful criminal network. For two years he's been painstakingly building evidence against the Eardsley Bluds, and now Shaw is about to make the arrests of his career. But then the brutal murder of a teenager threatens not only his case, but everyone with a connection to the boy who was killed on Gallowstree Lane. Shaw's priority is to protect his operation, an investigation into the killing can't be allowed to derail Perseus and let the master criminals go free.
But there's a witness to the murder, fifteen-year-old Ryan Kennedy. Already involved with the Bluds, Ryan has his own demons and his own ideas about what's important.
Shaw’s carefully crafted investigation is in danger of unravelling when loyalties collide and priorities clash, and then a chain of events is triggered that draws in Shaw's old adversary DI Sarah Collins which threatens everyone with a connection to Gallowstree Lane.
Detective Inspector Kieran Shaw is head of Operation Perseus - a covert police investigation into a powerful criminal network. For two years he's been painstakingly building evidence against the Eardsley Bluds, and now Shaw is about to make the arrests of his career. But then the brutal murder of a teenager threatens not only his case, but everyone with a connection to the boy who was killed on Gallowstree Lane. Shaw's priority is to protect his operation, an investigation into the killing can't be allowed to derail Perseus and let the master criminals go free.
But there's a witness to the murder, fifteen-year-old Ryan Kennedy. Already involved with the Bluds, Ryan has his own demons and his own ideas about what's important.
Shaw’s carefully crafted investigation is in danger of unravelling when loyalties collide and priorities clash, and then a chain of events is triggered that draws in Shaw's old adversary DI Sarah Collins which threatens everyone with a connection to Gallowstree Lane.
It's a compulsive, gripping read.
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Polly x
Happy Reading!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ivy
DeleteCheers, Polly. Happy Weekend!
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ReplyDeleteThank you Sylvia :-)
DeleteHere's a recommendation of my own - The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth Winthrop. About a young black man who's been sentenced to the electric chair for supposedly raping a young woman. It sounds a bit grim but it's beautifully written with vivid characters and a quite unexpected twist at the end.
ReplyDeleteThank you Nick, I will add it to my list.
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