Dark Crimes, Michael Hambling
Dark Crimes, Michael Hambling
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Dark Crimes

Author: Michael Hambling

Narrator: Cat Gould

Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/06/2016

Synopsis

A young woman's body is discovered on a deserted footpath . . .

It seems like a simple crime for DCI Sophie Allen and her team to solve. But not when the victim's mother is found strangled the next morning. The case grows more complex as DCI Sophie Allen discovers that the victims had secret histories, involving violence and intimidation. There's an obvious suspect but Detective Allen isn't convinced. Could someone else be lurking in the shadows, someone savagely violent, looking for a warped revenge?

Dark Crimes is the first in a series of detective thrillers featuring DCI Sophie Allen, head of the newly formed Violent Crime Unit in Dorset. She is pushed to the limit in her first major case as the team's head.

About Michael Hambling

Michael Hambling lives in the West of England, and he has set the location of his novels in this area. The early novels in the series are based in the Isle of Purbeck, a beautiful coastal area. But the rest of the county of Dorset does get a look in, and there are scenes set in other locations in the central south of England.

He writes because he constantly creates scenes, people, imaginary conversations, and unusual situations in his head. He has always done so, ever since he was a child. Using the richness of the English language to set down these creations in words is a great joy. Maybe by the time he's edited a passage for the umpteenth time it's beginning to lose some of its sparkle for him, but he believes in reshaping and polishing until it's as good as he can make it. It then becomes something about which he can feel some justifiable pride. He tries to include several plot layers in his novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on July 06, 2016

DARK CRIMES introduces the reader to DCI Sophie Allen in a new detective series that will have you salivating for more. A young woman is found dead, stabbed through the heart. Allen and her team think this is a straight forward killing .... until they find the victim's mother also murdered by strangu......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on July 05, 2024

Dark Crimes is book one in DCI Sophie Allen by Michael Hambling. DCI Sophie Allen and her team caught a case of a young woman murdered on a deserted footpath in a Dorset seaside town. At first, DCI Sophie Allen thought it would be an easy case to solve. However, they were wrong. The case became more......more

Goodreads review by Louise on June 01, 2016

As the title states, "a gripping detective thriller full of suspense," that was what I expected. Unfortunately this novel fell short. I struggled to get through this novel as it seemed like it was written just to crank out pages and get the thing completed. It seemed like it was a mass produced, poo......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on December 31, 2017

Was delighted to find another author to follow with a series I can feel comfortable reading. This first book in the series of DCI Sophie Allen required extensive police efforts and resources from multiple districts in the Dorset region to keep up with the victims of a psychopath. Women are abused an......more

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