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Ash & Bone

By: John Harvey

Fiction Mystery and Thrillers
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Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch will never see thirty again. Nor forty. A lifetime on the force and all she has to show for it is a couple of hundred pounds in the bank and a mortgaged flat in Highgate Borders. When the take down of a violent criminal goes badly wrong leaving both the target and a young constable dead, something doesnt feel right to Maddy. And her uneasiness is only compounded when she starts to believe someone is following her home.

In Cornwall retired Detective Inspector Elder...s solitary life is disturbed by a phone call from his estranged wife Joanne. Seventeen-year-old Katherine is running wild. Elders fears for his daughter are underscored by remorse and guilt for it was his involvement that led directly to the abduction and rape that has so unbalanced Katherines life.

Maddy and Elder have a connection. A brief, clumsy encounter sixteen years earlier. Just a quick grope and a cuddle, leading to nothing, but leaving a trace of lingering regret.

In?Ash ; Bone?the unsettled, unhappy Elder is once again persuaded out of retirement. A cold, cold case has a devastating present day impact with sinister implications for the crime squad itself. Elders investigation takes place against the backdrop of his increasing concern for his daughter and he must battle his own demons before he can uncover the truth.

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