Complex, fast paced!

Beachy Head (Detective Rutherford Barnes Mystery #2) by Adam Lyndon  

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Police procedural criminal mystery that kept me glued. If you thought Detective Sergeant Rutherford Barnes  was having a hard time keeping all his ducks in a row, spare a thought for me, the reader. After an eighteen month suspension Barnes is back, and tasked with investigating a death no one else wants. A drunken, abusive ex husband has been accidentally killed by the ex wife’s partner—an upstanding firefighter. The death must be investigated but it’s pretty open and shut accidental.

Suddenly this simple case of homicide turns into a jailbreak, leapfrogged over by a murder, corralled by another death in custody, and the list continues. Three major events interrupted by associated threads of the continuity of order, or linked? Only Barnes is making connections.

What it means is there’s dirty cops along the feeding line, and how far out and up does it go?

Corruption often starts with baby steps, and then!

Well paced, almost too fast for me, but really enjoyable.

A Joffe ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.