A man lies beaten to a pulp in a deserted car park in Maidstone, Kent.
His own brother put him there.
Josh Winters never saw it coming. He trusted his brother Alex. He always has.
Detective Abigail Morton is embedded in a fractured source-handling unit on the Kent
coast. She’s working a dangerous informant operation against the Winters’ criminal gang. Everyone says the brothers are untouchable.
But something is shifting inside the organisation. A crack running through its
foundations – and Abigail is close enough to feel it.
Getting close enough to use it is another matter.
But now she has a way in.
Josh and Alex’s mother, Betsy, is willing to turn on her own sons . . .
Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for thirteen years. During that time
he had many roles — starting as a front-line response officer, he became a member of a specialist tactical team and finally a detective investigating serious offences. Charlie left to concentrate on writing full time.
My thoughts: When Betsy, mother of the Winter brothers contacts the police, willing to give them information on her sons’ criminal activities, the police are pleased. She’s able to overhear all sorts of things as her boys hold meetings in her kitchen.
Her handler Abigail is careful, aware that while Betsy seems determined to put her sons’ away, she’s protective of her grandson Max, who might be more involved in her father and uncle’s business than his grandmother is willing to believe.
While Betsy’s information does help a little, the police need more to go on to follow up and as the end of the year approaches, Abigail and her partner Vince have found a few things out that might put a crimp in Betsy’s plan and that of her sons’.
There’s some great twists in this story about a family failing apart as they become embroiled in crime and the police’s attempts to stop them.
*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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