Drowned Lives
When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding help in healing a decades-old family rift, he sends the stranger away.
But then the old man is murdered, and the police arrive on the Chris's doorstep asking questions to which he has no answers.
As Chris begins to look into the circumstances of the murder, he uncovers a deadly secret in the silt and mud of the local canals that he'll realise was better kept buried.
I have read a few of the Cooper and Fry series and was looking forward to reading this stand alone novel.
Unfortunately it was something of a disappointment.
Despite being a journalist, Chris is not interested in what Samuel Longden is telling him or asking him to do. Actually, Chris seriously irritated me. He gets involved with a “Dot com” project, something he knows nothing about and devotes even less time to it that he does with researching the Buckley family. There is a tenuous link between the two.
In parts of the book I found it hard to work out who was talking about who, it became very confusing and I was glad to finish.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC copy.