en-US Thu, 26 Jan 2023 03:58:37 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 62908195 ‘John Kennedy is an exceptional talent. Authentic voice, impeccable pacing, pitch-perfect characterisation - but above all it’s the quality of his writing which had me gaping with envy.� Roger Morris.

DI Will Ashcroft, having overcome the trauma of a previous child murder case, is now recovering after being shot in an organised crime operation in London. The incident has made him question his future in the force.

In the north, his former partner DS Samira Byrne, battling prejudice in and outside her department, finds herself involved with a human trafficking ring with ties to the local police.

Disowned and wanted for questioning after a trumped-up drugs allegation, Byrne is forced to go on the run with a young woman she has rescued from the criminal gang.

Ashcroft returns to the north, determined to find Byrne and clear her name. He uncovers a web of corruption and narrowly escapes the gang’s dangerously unhinged enforcer, Dean.

The gang, however, are intent on finding both women and silencing them before their evidence can come to light.

Ashcroft discovers that the corruption may have spread into the higher reaches of the force.

Facing a killer who takes pleasure in his work, Ashcroft must put his reputation - and his life - at risk.

John Kennedy has been shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger and the Exeter prize. He is also the author of The Trauma Pool and The Kill Chain.

Praise for John
'Gritty, dark, full of edgy action and authentic characters. The tension simmers from start to finish.' Frank Malley, author of The 13th Assassin.

‘Kennedy knows how to develop plots and characters.� Thomas Waugh, author of Enough is Enough.


]]> 276 John Kennedy R.N. 5
One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about this series is the development of the central two characters, DI Will Ashcroft and DS Samira Byrne, over the three books. Their stories are mostly told in alternating chapters. We get the real sense of them following their own trajectories, sometimes coming together, but more often than not drifting apart, as they hunt down the bad guys, pursued by their own demons. It’s masterfully done. In this book, there’s a sense of resolution and we are left feeling that there is at least some hope for happiness for these two damaged, difficult people we have come to look on as friends.

Along the way, Kennedy delivers a dark, dangerous ride through the murkier criminal by-ways of the recent past. His tale of human trafficking is not for those who like their crime cosy. But if you appreciate gritty, fast-paced, character-driven, stonkingly well-written thrillers, dive in.]]> 4.64
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One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about this series is the development of the central two characters, DI Will Ashcroft and DS Samira Byrne, over the three books. Their stories are mostly told in alternating chapters. We get the real sense of them following their own trajectories, sometimes coming together, but more often than not drifting apart, as they hunt down the bad guys, pursued by their own demons. It’s masterfully done. In this book, there’s a sense of resolution and we are left feeling that there is at least some hope for happiness for these two damaged, difficult people we have come to look on as friends.

Along the way, Kennedy delivers a dark, dangerous ride through the murkier criminal by-ways of the recent past. His tale of human trafficking is not for those who like their crime cosy. But if you appreciate gritty, fast-paced, character-driven, stonkingly well-written thrillers, dive in.
]]> 40180098 The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

A New York Times Bestseller.]]> 502 Richard Powers 039335668X R.N. 0 currently-reading 4.10 2018
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