Bøker av Michael Hambling

A brand-new British crime mystery set on the Somerset coast from bestselling author Michael Hambling. Packed full of twists, this crime thriller will keep you turning the pages until the stunning conclusion.The body is found slumped on a mudbank in Watchet harbour, washed up with the incoming tide. A middle-aged man. The post-mortem reveals he was viciously beaten before ending up in the sea. And strangely his lungs are filled with fresh water.That's when Detective Sophie Allen of the Wessex Serious Crimes Unit is called in. She and her team end up with the tricky cases, the ones no one else can handle.A few days later, a second body is discovered in woodland high up on Exmoor.Then a new lead takes the case in an unexpected direction - and a very personal one for Sophie. It takes her back to a family tragedy fifteen years before, and memories she'd prefer to leave buried forever.

Exploring a foggy Wiltshire hill path, a walker hears a distant scream and calls the police, but the attending officers find nothing.Two days later, a farmworker comes across a woman's body, her head bashed in. The victim is quickly identified as Bridget Kirkbride, who lived alone in a small cottage in a pretty nearby village. Detective Sophie Allen is called in. It's her first major case as head of the newly-formed Wessex Serious Crime Unit - and she's under pressure to get a quick result. Bridget was a mainstay of village life, always ready to help out her neighbours. No one has a bad word to say about her. So who killed her? Bridget had a fiftieth birthday party the week before, which many of the villagers attended, including her supposedly devoted son, Grant. He has now disappeared without trace. Then a body is pulled out of a reed bed in the River Severn. Sophie and her team are in a race against time to uncover the truth before anyone else pays the ultimate price.