The Rock. Gibraltar. 1966.In a fading colonial house overlooking the Straits of Gibraltar, the dead body of a beautiful woman lays dripping in blood. The steel handle of a knife protrudes from her chest, its sharpened tip buried deep within her heart.The Rock. Present day.Detective Sergeant Tamara Sullivan arrives on The Rock on a three-month secondment from the London Metropolitan Police … Metropolitan Police Service. Her reasons for being here are not happy ones and she braces herself for a tedious and wasteful twelve weeks in the sun.
After all, murders are rare on the small, prosperous and sun-kissed sovereignty of Gibraltar and catching murderers is what Sullivan does best.
It is a talent she shares with her new boss, Chief Inspector Gus Broderick of the Royal Gibraltar Police Force. He’s an old-fashioned cop who regards his new colleague with mild disdain.
But when a young police constable is found hanging from the ceiling of his apartment, Sullivan and Broderick begin to unravel a dark and dangerous secret that will test their skills and working relationship to the limit.
“Elegant storytelling, an original location and a fine sense of place. Robert Daws is an exciting addition to the canon of 21st Century crime writers.’
Peter James. International bestselling author of the Inspector Roy Grace series.
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This book could have been so much more than it was. Characters were not developed and it was more like a novella than a novel.
unusual ending, definitely Brittish, some what plodding
Lukeman is once again at the top of his game.
Too short.
Good characters, well plotted, good twist when the villain is revealed.
The beginning didn’t get my attention, so, I discarded it.
I had a hard time putting this one down once I got into it!
The story was decent. I did not expect the bad guy to be who he was.