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Dark Waters – the second in the gripping new series featuring DS Kate Hamilton.
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The dark web can be a very scary place. Just ask Emily.
A brilliant young student named Emily walks into the sea on a cold January night after posting a suicide note online. It instantly goes viral and there’s a huge public outcry over the negative influence of social media on young people.
But when her body turns up on the Welsh coast, the post mortem reveals that Emily had been the victim of a violent sexual predator. Was that why she took her own life?
Detective Kate Hamilton and her partner Rory are tasked with the investigation and soon uncover dark secrets in the girl’s life.
As the Serious Crimes Unit push hard to identify the person who was preying on Emily, another student goes missing, and a wealthy young man is found murdered – his dead gaze focused on the same South Dublin shoreline. Are these tragedies somehow linked?
As the investigation moves forward, the squad delve into the sinister depths of the dark web, uncovering a network of abuse fuelled by online predators. Can they find the perpetrator and save the missing girl before it’s too late?
Review:
This is book 2 in the series, following Blood Mothers. This is an interesting look at how a video can go extremely viral, and how it can have far reaching effects. In the search for Emily, Hamilton's team steps outside their writ, until her discovery land the case right back in their fray. As they try to unravel Emily's life, they are met with lies and obstruction, so that soon they're not sure who the real Emily was- the one her family knew, or the one her friends knew. But even her friends soon realize there was more going on than Emily even told them, and by her silence, one of them may be the next victim or a very sneaky predator, unless Hamilton's team can solve the mystery first. With a thrilling ending, and a look behind the dark curtain of modern social media, this is a quick read and a great intro to the series, if you missed book 1.
About the Author:
Gaye admits to a lifelong obsession with crime, and a keen interest in psychology and social history. She credits her parents, who were avid readers, with her love of fiction. When she graduated from Enid Blyton to Agatha Christie at age nine, so began a life of crime…reading.
She enjoyed an award-winning career as a TV Producer/Director working for the BBC, ITV and RTE. She’s always written in her spare time, and during lockdown, when her husband built himself a workshop at the end of the garden, she seized control (peacefully) and renamed it her writing cabin. The result was BLOOD MOTHERS.
Now a full-time writer, she has three adult children and one adorable granddaughter. She lives in Dublin with her husband, to whom she now owes a workshop, two of her grown up kids and two rescue dogs who are not at all grown up, but make for great company at the bottom of the garden.
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