DC Smith and the rest of the murder squad are on the case to find a missing woman—but the danger might be closer than they assume.

A big car pulls up. No one gets out. Then the doors of a bar nearby open and people appear. Two men and a young woman, and one of the men has a hold on the woman’s arm. It looks as if they’re having words. 

Then this all happens quickly—they push the woman towards the car, one of the back doors opens and they manhandle her inside. There's a muffled shout from the woman and the car pulls away. 

It’s all over in a few seconds.      

It's just a few seconds—but seconds are all it takes to set in motion a sequence of events involving every member of the Kings Lake Central murder squad in the days to follow—and this time the threat is to one of their own.

Published
September 30, 2023
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Peter Grainger

Although I've always been a reader, I must admit that I first got into crime novels via television series such as Morse and Frost. It seemed odd initially, reading about characters that I had only watched before, and I found that I didn't always agree with what the producers and scriptwriters had done - but then I probably am one of life's disagree-ers. Having independently published three novels on Amazon's Kindle, I decided that my next project could be a crime novel of my own. In some ways it was easier to write than general fiction, the conventions of the genre making some decisions straightforward, but I still spend a lot of time…