DECEIVER ON THE LEVELS

<p><strong>MEET DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN IN THIS BESTSELLING SERIES FROM A FORMER POLICE OFFICER.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>A missing schoolgirl. A body in the woods. A killer who's only just begun.</strong></p><p></p><p>Newly promoted to Detective Inspector Kate is back on her old patch at Highbridge CID.</p><p></p><p>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. <strong>She never made it</strong>.</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>The following day a body is discovered in the woods. <strong>It's not Tammy</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Kate is in a race against time to unmask the most dangerous killer she's encountered yet. Before more young women die.</p><p></p><p><strong>DISCOVER AN ADDICTIVE CRIME THRILLER FULL OF TWISTS YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN.</strong></p><p></p><p>Perfect for fans of Rachel Abbott Joy Ellis Ann Cleeves Angela Marsons and Helen H. Durrant.</p><p></p><p><strong>READERS LOVE <em>DECEIVER ON THE LEVELS</em>:</strong></p><p></p><p>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ '<strong>Top-notch</strong> investigative mystery that <strong>will keep you hooked to the very end</strong>.' Bonita S.</p><p></p><p>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Wow! There were some <strong>jaw-dropping twists</strong> I didn't see coming in this book!' Debbie B.</p><p></p><p>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A <strong>terrific</strong> read and a whip-smart narrative that holds you from page to page!' NetGalley Reviewer</p><p></p><p>⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A <strong>brilliant</strong> crime thriller that <strong>keeps you gasping all the way through</strong>!' Rary</p><p></p><p>⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Kate is as sharp and feisty as ever . . . <strong>I love this series</strong> and this instalment is another great addition.' Diane T.</p><p></p><p>⭐⭐⭐<strong>⭐</strong> 'I really enjoyed this. The story <strong>had me hooked all the way through</strong>.' Mary R.</p><p></p><p><strong>THE DETECTIVES</strong></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><strong>THE SETTING</strong></p><p>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 160000 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.</p><p></p><p><strong>THE AUTHOR</strong></p><p>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.</p>