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The Secret Sins
(2019)(The third book in the DI Hogarth Secret Fear series)
A novel by Solomon Carter
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR HOGARTH PLANNED TO SPEND THE WEEKEND SAVING HIS SUPERIOR'S BACKSIDE FROM IMPENDING DISASTER BUT HOGARTH'S PLANS HAVE TO CHANGE WHEN HE IS CALLED TO A MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE. LOCKED ALONE INSIDE HER HOLIDAY PARK CARAVAN, DINA CORBETT DIED FROM A SINGLE GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD. A GUN IS FOUND CLOSE BY THE DEAD GIRL’S HAND BUT NO SUICIDE NOTE IN SIGHT.
SUICIDE IS THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION, BUT NAGGING DOUBTS SOON HAVE HOGARTH SUSPECTING MURDER. TROUBLE IS, THERE'S NO EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY AND EVERY WITNESS HAS A DECENT ALIBI... BUT DI HOGARTH CAN’T LET GO OF HIS SUSPICIONS... NOT EVEN WHEN HIS TEAM START TO TURN AGAINST HIM...
Dina Corbett had her whole life ahead of her, but those who knew her said she was depressed, moody, maybe even bipolar. Dina and her boyfriend Simon Da Costa abandoned their university courses to embark on a year of hedonism, staying at holiday parks and campsites across the country. Griffin Holiday Park, Canvey Island, turned out to be Dina’s last. At Griffin Park, Hogarth finds a sub-culture of miscreants living under the radar. Each one has a dubious tale and incurs his suspicion. If Dina’s death really was murder, which one of them killed the girl, and why? And how did Dina get access to a gun?
The investigation is complicated by the site of the former holiday park next door – a place which has been turned into accommodation for refugees and others in crisis. A lone foreign refugee watches the whole investigation through the fence. Hogarth doesn’t like being watched. He doesn’t like the crime scene, nor the questions lingering at the back of his mind. But in opting for murder, Hogarth stands alone.
And alone he must deal with DCI Melford. Hogarth’s superior is caught in a spiral of self-destruction and looks ready to cross the point of no return. The risks are everywhere. The pressure is mounting. And in working to save Melford, Hogarth must also remember to save himself.
DI Hogarth must make the right calls… or die trying.
Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ruth Rendell, Helen Durrant, Joy Ellis and LJ Ross. If you love to read gripping detective thrillers with flawed characters and police procedurals with shocking twists and a noir flavour, then the DI Hogarth Secret Fear series is for you.
The Secret Fear series is perfect for fans of British crime thrillers, female detective novels, British crime mysteries, police procedurals, heist thrillers and noir thrillers..
The Setting:
Southend-on-Sea, Just over an hour from London. A tough and densely packed suburban town sandwiched between the sparkling Thames Estuary and a semi-rural hinterland of fields and marshes. A place where wealth and glamour sit cheek by jowl with addiction, poverty, and crime. When he transferred to the Essex coast, ex-Met Detective Joe Hogarth might have imagined he was signing up for sun, sea, and semi-retirement. But the merry hell of Southend might just have him beat. It’s a good thing this DI doesn’t know when to quit…
THE DI HOGARTH SECRET FEAR SERIES
THE SECRET FEAR
THE SECRET DAWN
THE SECRET SINS
THE DI HOGARTH DARKEST SERIES
THE DARKEST LIES
THE DARKEST GRAVE
THE DARKEST DEED
THE DARKEST TRUTH
ALSO BY SOLOMON CARTER
LONG TIME DYING 1-13
LUCK AND JUDGMENT
LONDON CALLING
THE FINAL TRICK
AND MUCH MORE...
Genre: Mystery
SUICIDE IS THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION, BUT NAGGING DOUBTS SOON HAVE HOGARTH SUSPECTING MURDER. TROUBLE IS, THERE'S NO EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY AND EVERY WITNESS HAS A DECENT ALIBI... BUT DI HOGARTH CAN’T LET GO OF HIS SUSPICIONS... NOT EVEN WHEN HIS TEAM START TO TURN AGAINST HIM...
Dina Corbett had her whole life ahead of her, but those who knew her said she was depressed, moody, maybe even bipolar. Dina and her boyfriend Simon Da Costa abandoned their university courses to embark on a year of hedonism, staying at holiday parks and campsites across the country. Griffin Holiday Park, Canvey Island, turned out to be Dina’s last. At Griffin Park, Hogarth finds a sub-culture of miscreants living under the radar. Each one has a dubious tale and incurs his suspicion. If Dina’s death really was murder, which one of them killed the girl, and why? And how did Dina get access to a gun?
The investigation is complicated by the site of the former holiday park next door – a place which has been turned into accommodation for refugees and others in crisis. A lone foreign refugee watches the whole investigation through the fence. Hogarth doesn’t like being watched. He doesn’t like the crime scene, nor the questions lingering at the back of his mind. But in opting for murder, Hogarth stands alone.
And alone he must deal with DCI Melford. Hogarth’s superior is caught in a spiral of self-destruction and looks ready to cross the point of no return. The risks are everywhere. The pressure is mounting. And in working to save Melford, Hogarth must also remember to save himself.
DI Hogarth must make the right calls… or die trying.
Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ruth Rendell, Helen Durrant, Joy Ellis and LJ Ross. If you love to read gripping detective thrillers with flawed characters and police procedurals with shocking twists and a noir flavour, then the DI Hogarth Secret Fear series is for you.
The Secret Fear series is perfect for fans of British crime thrillers, female detective novels, British crime mysteries, police procedurals, heist thrillers and noir thrillers..
The Setting:
Southend-on-Sea, Just over an hour from London. A tough and densely packed suburban town sandwiched between the sparkling Thames Estuary and a semi-rural hinterland of fields and marshes. A place where wealth and glamour sit cheek by jowl with addiction, poverty, and crime. When he transferred to the Essex coast, ex-Met Detective Joe Hogarth might have imagined he was signing up for sun, sea, and semi-retirement. But the merry hell of Southend might just have him beat. It’s a good thing this DI doesn’t know when to quit…
THE DI HOGARTH SECRET FEAR SERIES
THE SECRET FEAR
THE SECRET DAWN
THE SECRET SINS
THE DI HOGARTH DARKEST SERIES
THE DARKEST LIES
THE DARKEST GRAVE
THE DARKEST DEED
THE DARKEST TRUTH
ALSO BY SOLOMON CARTER
LONG TIME DYING 1-13
LUCK AND JUDGMENT
LONDON CALLING
THE FINAL TRICK
AND MUCH MORE...
Genre: Mystery
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