A shocking murder on quiet Eden Street baffles the Kings Lake Central murder squad in this thrilling installment in the bestselling DC Smith series.

The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is poised for a sleepy day at the office, focusing on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases— when the body of one of the city’s rough sleepers is discovered in a shop doorway. At first, it seems like an open and shut case—he isn’t the first to die on the streets, and, unfortunately, he won’t be the last—but the team quickly learns that this story, is far from routine.

As the investigation deepens, small secrets begin to surface and magnify, and DS Chris Waters makes a shocking discovery that links this case to a previous investigation.

With budgetary concerns, interpersonal dramas, and mounting pressure placed on DCI Cara Freeman and Kings Lake’s first specialist team, can they learn to work together to solve the case before it’s too late?

Published
February 2, 2020
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Author

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…