The Lost Detective
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Story Machine
Publishing:25th Sep '25
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 25th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Unraveling secrets, confronting loss - a gripping debut crime novel set in the haunting beauty of rural East Anglia.
A summer’s afternoon. A tiny baby suddenly vanished from his pram, the mystery of what happened to him never solved. A young mother lost in grief. Twenty-one years later, ex-police detective Dan Hennessy is coming to terms with a loss of his own. When his neighbour disappears, and a nameless body turns up at a local solar farm, Dan is lured into a world of secrets reaching far into the past and with consequences for his future. Can he draw the clues together, to find consolation for the grieving mother and himself?
This is a beautifully written, deeply atmospheric, well-paced and moving crime novel with a brilliant edge. The setting, South Norfolk’s Brecklands and Wetlands, adds to the sense of the unknown and the unstable. Former detective Dan Hennessy is struggling with grief and past demons, living in a tired caravan park. His determination to help a friend and solve a cold case, along with a hot new one, despite having given up his badge, proves just what the force is missing. In this complex and highly characterful drama, the further you look, the more you find. And just sometimes all that searching goes a long way to mending broken hearts.
-- Henry SuISBN: 9781912665525
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