Deceiver on the Levels

MEET DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN IN THIS BESTSELLING SERIES FROM A FORMER POLICE OFFICER.

A missing schoolgirl. A body in the woods. A killer who's only just begun.

Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, Kate is back on her old patch at Highbridge CID.

But there's no time to settle in. Early Monday morning, Kate gets a call. Fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Tammy Robinson is missing. She hasn't been seen since Friday afternoon when she told her mother she was going to her best friend's to revise. She never made it.

Kate discovers that Tammy wasn't going to her friend's house at all. She was planning to meet a mysterious boyfriend she called Gerry. She'd met him in an online chatroom - who is he really?

The following day, a body is discovered in the woods. It's not Tammy.

Kate is in a race against time to unmask the most dangerous killer she's encountered yet. Before more young women die.

DISCOVER AN ADDICTIVE CRIME THRILLER FULL OF TWISTS YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN.

Perfect for fans of Rachel Abbott, Joy Ellis, Ann Cleeves, Angela Marsons and Helen H. Durrant.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Kept me guessing from the first page.' Kathryn M.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A great read! This book had suspense, intrigue, action, a great whodunit, and some wild twists and turns!' Debbie B.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A great book with lots of twists and turns that kept me gripped to my seat. I thoroughly enjoyed it.' M.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Plenty of suspense and twists . . . Very enjoyable.' Jean E.

THE DETECTIVES

Detective Inspector Kate Lewis is a feisty detective with a dynamic approach to her job. She is tenacious, but also prone to being headstrong. This often lands her in tight spots, earning her the nicknames 'Maverick' or 'Go-It-Alone' Kate, and it puts her on a collision course with the more bureaucratic hierarchy of the force.

In contrast to Kate, her detective constable husband and partner, Hayden, is an overweight, untidy, ex-public schoolboy with a pompous, laidback attitude and an old-fashioned view of life, which drives Kate to distraction. But he is also highly intelligent with a reasoned approach to everything, which, can sometimes act as a brake on his partner's impulsive behaviour.

THE SETTING

A patchwork of fields, peat moor and marshland, dotted with picturesque villages and criss-crossed by man-made irrigation ditches or rhynes, the Somerset Levels covers an area of about 160,000 acres between the Mendips and Quantock Hills. Sparsely populated and prone to flooding with a brooding stillness, which creeps into the very soul; a secret place bound to fire the imagination of any self-respecting crime novelist, whose thoughts will invariably turn to . . . murder.

THE AUTHOR

David Hodges is a former police superintendent, with thirty years' service. He has received critical media acclaim, is the author of twenty published crime novels, with his Somerset Levels Murder series attracting keen interest in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, as well as in the UK.