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Synopsis:
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR MIKE CROFT RETURNS TO THE GREENWAY,
TO FACE HIS MOST DIFFICULT CASE YET....
A BODY ON THE BEACH.
In the hot, dry heat of high summer, Martha Toolin is found stabbed to death. She was a stranger to the area and had been seen arguing with a teenage boy.
BUT SHE IS A LIAR.
Detective Mike Croft is called into investigate and quickly discovers that the victim was not who she says she was. She was a con artist who exploited the vulnerable and elderly. Even her name is false.
EVERYONE WAS TAKEN IN BY HER. EVEN THE POLICE.
The number of suspects who wanted her dead begins to multiply. Who was she and what did she want with Mike Croft’s friend, former police detective John Tynan?
SOMEONE WILL KILL AGAIN TO PROTECT LONG-BURIED SECRETS.
And then another body is found on the beach . . .
Series:
DETECTIVE MIKE CROFT SERIES
Book 1: THE GREENWAY
Book 2: THE SECRETS
Book 3: THEIR FINAL MOMENTS
Book 4: THE LIAR
Review:
This is the first book of the series I had read, but I will defintely be going back to read the other3! Det Croft is a great character, and this book is able to be read as a standalone, giving you great insight into his methoods, by references to his past cases. very much a closed room type mystery, as the case progresses the team gets more and more suspects, but no leads to what realy happened to Tomlin. Even as the case snakes too close to home, Mike and his team push on, to the surprise ending! Don't miss this one!
About the Author
I born in Leicester and, though it is far too far from the sea, I still live here. My first crime novel, The Greenway, was nominated for the CWA John Creasey award and also for the Authors' Club award. I have written several series: Mike Croft (beginning with The Greenway); Ray Flowers novels (the 'Angel' series) and more recently the Rina Martin and Naomi Blake books as well as several standalones and various short stories and an excursion into weird fiction with my friends at Grimalkin Books.
More recently, I've been working on a series set between the two World Wars and featuring Detective Inspector Henry Johnstone and his sergeant, Micky Hitchens. It's a bit of a departure but I've wanted to write something set in that era for quite a long time and the research has been fascinating. I've grown very fond of Henry and Mickey. Book four, The Clockmaker, will be released at the end of May.
I'm also very excited to report that my back list, starting with The Greenway, is to be re released by Joffe books. It's felt very strange revisiting these books but it's fantastic to know that they are going to be out in the world again, in fresh covers...and...there will be new books in both the Mike Croft and Ray Flowers series.
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