How do you solve a murder when you’re shut out of the investigation?
Young detectives, Robinson Ellington Foxe and Amy Kennard, don’t want to work at Coventry’s Moat Lane police station. Neither do their colleagues want them there. But it’s the last chance for two
officers for whom doing the right thing has cost them their futures.
Despite a murder on their patch, they are lumbered with investigating a series of high-profile burglaries. But when a thief is killed in the house of an influential businessman, Foxe and Kennard are convinced it is linked to their cases and want in.
The official investigation is a whitewash, but Robbie and Amy keep investigating anyway. As they uncover a web of deceit and corruption, reaching to the very top of the force, their own difficult histories are weaponised against them, and they find themselves fighting for their careers and their lives.
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Paul Gitsham is the author of the Foxe and Kennard British detective series, the DCI Warren Jones series and the standalone domestic thriller, The Aftermath.
Brought up in Coventry, he started his career as a biologist. After gaining a PhD in molecular biology, he worked in laboratories in Manchester and Toronto, before retraining as a science teacher.
Along the way he had spells as the world’s most over-qualified receptionist and spent time working for a major UK bank, ensuring that terrorists, foreign dictators and other international ne’er do wells
hadn’t embarrassed the institution by managing to deposit their ill-gotten gains in a Children’s Trust Fund.
Paul’s final school reports from primary school said that he would never achieve anything if his handwriting didn’t improve. A somewhat kinder note urged him to become the next Roald Dahl. If
anything, his handwriting has got worse and unless Mr Dahl also wrote police procedurals under a pseudonym, he has failed on both counts.
Paul is a member of the Crime Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers organisation and lives with his wife in the West Midlands in a house with more books than shelf space.
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My thoughts: Foxe and Kennard are both new to the team at West Midlands Police, he was with the Met and she’s from Manchester, but they’re put together to work on a string of burglaries while the rest of the team are dealing with a murder.
However, as they investigate, they start noticing strange coincidences, and with a bit more work, they’re not coincidences, they’re part of something bigger. All of the victims posted about being away on Instagram and they all had safes installed by the same company. But then there’s a few outliers, and that’s even more intriguing.
Both have slightly complicated pasts, both left their previous roles under a shadow and now they’re struggling to fit in. But they’re also excellent detectives and in solving their cases, they might also be solving the cases the rest of the team are working on.
A really good start to a new series, with great protagonists and an interesting start, having solved a huge case and exposed some darkness in the police that needed to be dealt with.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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