A dark night, an open bedroom window – and three bullets that strike from the darkness. The victim of the shocking assassination is a harmless middle-aged woman, living a reclusive life in a quiet Peak District village. But is she quite so harmless as she seems?

Detective Sergeant Diane Fry knows that innocence is no defence against death. She’s already combing through the blackened wreckage of a family’s life, sifting the tragic possessions of a young mother and two children who lost their lives in a suspicious house fire. Like Rose Shepherd, the Mullens never saw the danger on the night they died. For DS Fry and her colleague DC Ben Cooper, these are just the first pieces in a complex pattern of destruction, the latest deaths in a long trail of killings.

To find the answers they need, Cooper and Fry must take their enquiries far beyond Derbyshire, to the other side of Europe and back. Along the way, Cooper is forced to face up to his own ambivalent feelings about mental illness, and an unexpected complication turns up in Fry’s life – a surprise in the shape of a charismatic Bulgarian police officer, who awakens ambitions she didn’t know she had, and feelings she’d long since buried.

Another for you Lubiette.
Enjoy !
More to come in the future if you aren't bored. ;)

I feel so spoiled, thank you !

A very interesting topic, illegal adoptions, but such a far fetched plot ! Nevertheless Cooper and Fry remain an excellent investigation pair. Trivial detail : I am wondering how SOCO agent Liz could be a blonde in The dead place and have dark hair in this story ? A dark hair blonde or dying her hair differently in each book ? That's disturbing though completely unimportant (or maybe not ?).

Christmas Carols 2018.

Happy reading !