"Investigative connections between a Medusa-like corpse and an abusive police Commander add up to an edge-of-your-seat crime thriller."
Nick Louth’s The Deep End, one of the author’s Devon-set DI Jan Talantire novels, sees the DI handle being thrown in at the deep end when an ID-less woman’s body washes up by Teignmouth Pier on Boxing Day. While the murder investigation that unfolds is grippingly suspenseful, so too are the DI’s workplace circumstances, amounting to an edgy ride of a read that ticks plenty of crime thriller boxes — an engaging detective, a meaty murder case, and corrupt constabulary cover ups.
Having filed a complaint against “highly decorated and well-thought-of” Commander West, also a “notorious womaniser” who’d become “controlling and abusive” during their brief liaison, Talantire is appalled that West “was slated to become the chief constable of Devon and Cornwall” while female complainants, including Talantire, have been put on final warnings for allegedly colluding to sully his name.
While Talantire is set on securing justice through gathering more evidence of West’s abuse, it emerges that the washed-up Boxing Day body, with its tendrils of Medusa-like hair and eyes pecked out by birds, was killed by metal poisoning. As the finely-tuned plot unfolds, DI Talantire’s investigations lead her to consider connections between the two cases that loom large in her life, resulting in an intensely engaging crime novel that packs a personal punch.
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On Boxing Day a mystery woman's body is found washed up under Teignmouth Pier. She has no ID but is wearing a wetsuit. When the post-mortem shows heavy metal poisoning, DI Jan Talantire is called in.
Talantire herself is caught in an ongoing game of cat-and-mouse against her nemesis Commander Brent West. Her complaint against him for abusive behaviour foundered when she was accused by the investigating panel of collusion with another complainant, PC Nadine Lister, to bring West down.
With her career hanging by a thread, Talantire discovers that the route to solving the mystery is tangled up with the death of the woman on the Devon Coast. Brent West, it seems, will go to any lengths to protect his career.
And that includes murder.
A razor-sharp, suspense-filled crime thriller from the million-copy bestseller, perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Elly Griffiths.
The Deep End features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Thriller and Suspense
The Deep End is available in Paperback
The Deep End was written by Nick Louth and published by Canelo Crime an imprint of Canelo
The Deep End has 344 pages
Yes it is part of Detective Jan Talantire series
£8.99
