Darkside

In the closed Exmoor village of Shipcott, first encountered in Blacklands, the local bobby Jonas Holly is shocked by the death of Priddy. Knowing such a case is beyond his remit, Holly calls in the top guns and we observe the arrival of DCI Marvel from Taunton: a man who proves to be an extreme irritant to Holly’s well meaning efforts, rendering them hapless at every opportunity and sucking away at Holly’s self esteem. Soon, it becomes apparent that someone aims to remove from Shipcott all of its most vulnerable and dependent: the elderly and the ailing, or a combination of the both. Within this, Holly’s wife Lucy, a housebound sufferer of MS, seems a prime target. Call yourself a policeman? Jonas had always felt the local police held him in warm regard. Now a small dagger of ice had pierced that warmth and everything had changed in an instant. Shipcott in bleak midwinter: a close-knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an elderly woman is murdere...

Author: Bauer Belinda

ISBN: 9780593062968

Year of publication: 2011

Genre: Detective, Thriller

Number of pages: 309

Reading time: 5 h. 9 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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