DCI Jane Birchfield is facing a series of personal challenges: a rocky relationship with her partner; her mum hardly talks to her; and her boss and mentor is critically ill, which means she is covering his post as well as her own. Then she has to take charge of the toughest of murder investigations.
Jamie Castleton is found dead, seemigly frozen in position at a computer in a grubby internet cafe near Manchester. He was a self employed tech consultant and a computer expert, so what was he there?
The more Jane and her team dig under the surface, the more the evidence points to one of Manchester's biggest companies and its wealthy boss.
This leads Jane into a sordid underworld and a surprise twist in the investigation forces her to face up to an event in her own past, that she has kept secret for 25 years.
The investigation has become a personal crusade, but in this race against time there is far more at stake than she ever imagined.

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• Crime, Thriller & MysteryCrime FictionMurder
• Literature & Fiction

• Publication Date: April 16, 2023
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• Print Length: 298 Pages
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