DCI Rachel King has a problem, she once had a fling with a man that would turn out to be one of the gangsters that runs Manchester. In fact, the fling is still a bit of a dirty secret as she still harbours feelings for him.
That itself is a problem. An even bigger problem is that his name has come up as a suspect in a murder investigation.
The first body to turn up is that of a gay man who has suffered a horrific death after apparently being tortured.
When King and her team start the investigations they follow the evidence that is left at the scene, but is it reliable or is somebody playing them.
When a second body is found it looks like it is linked to the first by location, but there is a totally different manner of death.
When a third body is found, in similar circumstances as the first, the team begin to think that the second body wasn’t connected after all, but are they right.
This is a complex story weaving numerous plot lines together in a way that the reader is left in no doubt as the difficulties facing the investigation team.
At the same time the reader follows the struggle in Kings personal life. Divorced from her husband, who now lives next door, and bringing up two teenage daughters, she has her dirty secret to consider during the investigation.
Does she tell her team, and her family, about the tryst with the gangster. Where will it leave her professionally, and what will it do to her family life.
I liked this book. The crime plot is original and compelling, but what really makes the story is the issues that surround King and her secret fling.
Pages: 195
Publishers: Joffe
Available now on Amazon
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