One Under
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
2020-12-29 23:08:10
For a policeman, there are some questions that have to be asked even if you don''t want to know the answers . . . A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd''s Bush station, and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country ...
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For a policeman, there are some questions that have to be asked even if you don''t want to know the answers . . .
A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd''s Bush station, and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane puzzlingly far from her home on the White City Estate: two unrelated incidents which occupy DCI Bill Slider and his team during a slack period. At least it''s a change of speed after the grind of domestics, burglaries and Community Liaison.
But links to a cold case - another dead teenager, pulled out of the River Thames - create doubts as to whether they are indeed unrelated. And slowly a trail of corruption and betrayal is uncovered, leading Slider and his firm ever deeper into a morass of horror.
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