Every now and again a new crime novel comes along and you know it’s something special. This won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey award for Best First Crime Novel. It’s first rate. A tale of corruption with an ending you really can’t guess; it’s mesmerising stuff.
Comparison: Scott Turow, Richard North Patterson, Dennis Lehane.
Similar this month: None but try Lisa Scottoline or James Patterson.
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Nothing much happens in Versailles, Maine. Until a body is found in a cabin up by the lake. The dead man turns out to be from the Boston DA’s office, a prosecutor who had been investigating a series of gang-related murders in that city. Ben Truman, Chief of Police, heads down to Boston to follow the few fragile leads he has in the case. Not welcomed by the police there, he knows he really should get the message and disappear back to the sticks. Big city crime is way beyond anything he's ever dealt with before.
But still Truman refuses to let it go. With the help of a retired cop who knows all the angles, he becomes embroiled in an investigation which has its roots in a sequence of deaths which began twenty years previously…
Mission Flats features in the following genres: Debut Books of the Month, Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Fiction
Mission Flats is available in Paperback, Paperback (b Format), Ebook
Mission Flats was written by William Landay and published by Transworld Publishers Ltd
Mission Flats has 509 pages
£8.09
