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Traffic cop Sal Delaney?s past is catching up with her . . .

Sunday Times bestselling author David Mark delivers a pulse-pounding new dark and gritty police procedural series set in the north of England, with a complex, intriguing female protagonist.

North of England. Cumbria. Salome Delaney didn?t have a great start in life. But her abusive childhood came to a tragic conclusion with the killing of her tyrant mother, Trina, by a jealous ex-boyfriend. At least, that?s what the police say. Sal has never believed kind Wulf, who tried to protect her from her mother?s dark side, could have committed such a crime, but the evidence was irrefutable . . . and who else could have done it?

Now an adult, with a good job as a Collison Investigation Officer, Sal?s done her best to put the past behind her. But one snowy morning she?s called to an accident scene, and she recognizes the body ? Barry Ford, the man her mother left Wulf for, all those years ago.

It soon becomes clear this wasn?t just an accident ? it was murder. And Wulf, now out of prison, lives very close by . . .

The question of who really killed her mother has haunted Sal her whole life, but as she launches a complex investigation, which gets darker by the hour, she starts to wonder if she really wants to know the answer after all.

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      Publisher: Canongate Books
      Publication Date: 6/19/2025
      ISBN13: 9781448317158, 978-1448317158
      ISBN10: 1448317150

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Traffic cop Sal Delaney?s past is catching up with her . . .

      Sunday Times bestselling author David Mark delivers a pulse-pounding new dark and gritty police procedural series set in the north of England, with a complex, intriguing female protagonist.

      North of England. Cumbria. Salome Delaney didn?t have a great start in life. But her abusive childhood came to a tragic conclusion with the killing of her tyrant mother, Trina, by a jealous ex-boyfriend. At least, that?s what the police say. Sal has never believed kind Wulf, who tried to protect her from her mother?s dark side, could have committed such a crime, but the evidence was irrefutable . . . and who else could have done it?

      Now an adult, with a good job as a Collison Investigation Officer, Sal?s done her best to put the past behind her. But one snowy morning she?s called to an accident scene, and she recognizes the body ? Barry Ford, the man her mother left Wulf for, all those years ago.

      It soon becomes clear this wasn?t just an accident ? it was murder. And Wulf, now out of prison, lives very close by . . .

      The question of who really killed her mother has haunted Sal her whole life, but as she launches a complex investigation, which gets darker by the hour, she starts to wonder if she really wants to know the answer after all.

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