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DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING CRIME MYSTERIES YOU’LL READ THIS YEAR. JUDI DAYKIN WAS LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER 2021!
Detective Sara Hirst has moved from London to the Serious Crimes Unit in beautiful Norfolk.
SARA FACES HER MOST CHALLENGING CASE YET.
It’s a stormy December morning when seal-watchers find the body on the beach at Winterton-on-Sea. His clothes have been torn to shreds on the rocks. The bright-orange life jacket didn’t save him in the end.
Detective Sara Hirst races to the scene. The washed-up body turns out to be a deckhand who got swept overboard in a storm.
It looks like a tragic accident.
Until another body is found on a pleasure boat drifting out at sea. There are bullet holes in the boat’s hull.
This was definitely murder.
But Sara will soon have more to worry about than two dead bodies. Someone from her past is back . . .
There are dark dealings going on in this quiet stretch of Norfolk coast. Detective Sara Hirst must get to the bottom of things before anyone else turns up dead.
Review:
Book 5 in the series, this book grabs your attention from the very first chapter, and keeps you hooked as multiple cases evolve, and Sara realizes they might be part of the same larger one. Then when an incident with a homeless woman escalates, she has more than just an unsolved murder. As the bodies keep turning up, they realize their small division is dealling with big city problems, and with help from outside officers, a roller coaster conclusion is at hand. A quick read, I love this series for it's strong lead character, and you will too!
About the Author:
Yorkshire born, Judi has lived, worked and made theatre in Norfolk for the last forty years. She completed her MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and her debut novel was shortlisted for the Little, Brown UEA writer's prize in 2019.'I love the beautiful, vast skies and watery landscapes of Norfolk. Our home in a village on the north coast can feel wonderfully remote, even though the nearest town is only a few miles away. I can't imagine living anywhere better than this.'Judi is also a working actor, and has been known to twiddle the knobs on the sound desk for the variety shows at Cromer Pier. She runs her own theatre company, Broad Horizons, specialising in commissioning new plays recovering and retelling women's stories.
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