Deadly Crimes, Michael Hambling
Deadly Crimes, Michael Hambling
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Deadly Crimes

Author: Michael Hambling

Narrator: Cat Gould

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/27/2016

Synopsis

A young man's mutilated body is found on top of the Agglestone...

It seems that he was involved in a human trafficking and prostitution gang. But why is DCI Sophie Allen keeping something back from her team? Is it linked to the extraordinary discovery of her own father's body at the bottom of a disused mineshaft, more than forty years after he disappeared?

Deadly Crimes is the second in a new series of police detective thrillers featuring DCI Sophie Allen, head of the recently formed Violent Crime Unit in Dorset. An English county which includes a stunning section of the coastline, but whose beauty belies darkness beneath the surface.

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

Detective Sophie Allen is investigating a human trafficking/prostitution ring run by a gang that's been active for some time. A young man's body is found on the roof of a famous landmark. His tongue is missing .. is this a message for others? On the personal side of things, Sophie's father's body is......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on January 02, 2018

This is rather a different brand of DCI, our Sophie Allen, so these books have interest in that element alone. There were some pretty bad characters in this book who had been getting away with trafficking women for some years and murdering some along the way without notice. The hunt begins in earnes......more

Goodreads review by Holly in Bookland on January 16, 2024

Well written story. I’m liking Sophie as an inspector, she’s a tough one. This just wasn’t my favorite trope to read about (human trafficking).......more

Goodreads review by Pat on June 10, 2017

That was quite a dark book. A brutally murdered body found on top of a local landmark rock leads DCI Sophie Allen and her team into a dark web of human trafficking, torture, abuse and criminal pond scum. At the same time an 'old' body recovered from a disused mine shaft causes Sophie great personal d......more

Goodreads review by David on May 15, 2021

2nd Book in the DCI Sophie Allen Series and Now I get Her .. A Really Good Story......more

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