When an eccentric widow claims she is being stalked by her former lodger, Detective Jack Warr is the only person who believes her wild claims.
Days later, she is found brutally murdered in her home.
When the investigation uncovers an international drugs operation on the widow’s property, the case grows even more complex. And as the hunt for the widow’s lodger hits dead end after dead end, it seems that the prime suspect has vanished without a trace.
To find answers, Jack must decide how far is he willing to go – and what he is willing to risk – in his search for justice. Because if he crosses the line of the law, one wrong move could cost him everything . . .
My thoughts: Book three and a rather peculiar case for Jack and his team. Avril is a pain in the neck for her local police station, and now she’s claiming her former lodger is stalking her, breaking into her house, stealing odds and ends. Jack gets asked to speak to her and see if he can’t make some sense out of all her strange stories.
Then she’s murdered, and now it’s much more serious. Especially when they discover a greenhouse full of weed and a secret basement pill plant. Who was Avril really and was this her lodger’s business?
Taking in organised crime, the drug squad, forcing Jack to once again work with other teams, as he hunts down the lodger and unravels Avril’s life in the search for her killer. This is another brilliant, clever, compelling case with the truly interesting detective.
His moral compass is wobbling, will he cross the line and conceal things from his colleagues, giving into the criminal biological father he never knew but feels lurks inside him, or stay true to who his adoptive parents raised him to be? A father himself now, he has to wrestle with his conscience and do what is legally right or what he feels is morally so?
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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