British police procedural!
The South Bank Murders (Detective Rob Miller #5) by Biba Pearce
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Well paced contemporary British crime novel. It starts with a phone call to DCI Miller, sleep deprived proud new father that he is. His mentor retired Detective Chief Superintendent Sam Lawrence wants a meetup. Miller passes. The next phone call in the middle of the night is to report Sam’s death. The Putney Major Investigation team want the case but their new Super decides it’s to be handed over to another group. After a few false starts, Putney gets the case. Great, as they’d all been working on it anyway. Things get complicated when another murder case, that of a young boy, appears to cross into this investigation. In between the drug dealing, child trafficking and who knows what else the team have their hands full.
The revealed truth was something I’d wondered about beforehand. There’s another seemingly uptight person I’m having thoughts about. I still wonder who the guy outside the mobile shop was—he didn’t fit the homeless pattern. Mmm!
A quick read, fast and furious, with several moving parts that could’ve easily ramped out of control, but didn’t.
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