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2000s: South Lewisham and a gritty police procedural with a crime which will chill you to the core…
No Place to Die
What you need to know before your trail
Jane Bennett, is not having a good day. As the senior Detective Sergeant for the murder squad at the South Lewisham station where she’s based, she’s got a lot of work to do. Her boss, DI Mike Lockyer has just returned from a two week ‘holiday’ shaken from the last case. Jane worries that he never confided in her.
But the two policemen don’t have time to think of the past as they get a phone call saying that a retired policeman has disappeared. Jane knows him well and when she finds out more, she may wish she hadn’t.
And then a body of a young girl is found. Surely the two cases couldn’t be related, could they?
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Lewisham in South London
The Lewisham murder squad is a dark place and the whole ambiance of the police station and the crimes it investigates create a dark and claustrophobic world which feeds your fears.
DI Jane Bennett has an interesting backstory and her life in Lewisham alongside her hight profile job is not an easy one. The intricacies of the police work and the pressures are clear to see. Just how do you solve a crime where victims are being buried alive and their final moment recorded for ever?
Emstead Woods ( fictional)
The murders which take place in this novel are perhaps one of the most chilling crimes and settings for a crime we’ve come across in a long while. What can be more claustrophobic and chilling that being buried alive? Entombed in a ready made prison filled with damp earth and absolute blackness.
Terror and the thought of the final moments of that victim are too horrific to think about but it’s the sense of it being the very idea that this is no place to die that chills you to the core.
The overall setting and atmosphere is the stuff of nightmares – chilling dark nightmares and the dark matter that lies at the back of your imagination.
Booktrailer Review
Susan @thebooktrailer
I really shouldn’t read books like this at night. I do like to travel to new settings via books but this just took me to the stuff of nightmares! A gripping thriller mind and a real insight into the police work involved in such a complicated and unique case.
Jane is an interesting figure – isolated in many ways both professionally and privately, this adds to her backstory as a character and makes her very rounded. She and Mike make an interesting team and I was intrigued to see this relationship develop. I wanted to know more so I immediately read the first novel with this team Don’t look Back.
Good intriguing and unusual crime – just don’t read it in the dark
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