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The Dark

By: Sharon Bolton
Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
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ONCE, SHE SAVED HIS LIFE...

NOW, HE'LL TAKE HERS.

When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames, off-duty police officer Lacey Flint is there to prevent disaster. But who would want to hurt a child?

DCI Mark Joesbury has been expecting this. Monitoring a complex network of dark web sites, Joesbury and his team have spotted a new terrorist threat from the extremist, women-hating, group known as 'incels' or 'involuntary celibates.' Joesbury's team are trying to infiltrate the ring of power at its core, but the dark web is built for anonymity, and the incel army is vast.

Pressure builds when the team learn the snatched child was just the first in a series of violent attacks designed to terrorise women. Worse, the leaders of the movement seem to have singled out Lacey as the embodiment of everything they hate, placing her in terrible danger...

©2022 Sharon Bolton (P)2022 Orion Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Detective Suspense
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It was really enthralling for 95% of the book, but then went out like a whimper

Loose ends

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Great to have Lacey back with more intriguing plots and sub plots.
Must say though a bit feed up with hearing in many crime fiction outings these days the increasing anxt about principal characters and their kids - who cares. It does in this book but now our prime character is pregnant too hope this does not impede the future outings.

Very Enjoyable

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When I discovered another instalment of Lacy and Joesbury I was over the moon but I felt the story was weak, lacked a bit of the tension that was there in other books and seemed to be wrapped up a bit too easily.
That said, I await the next book and hope there is one. I hope it has a bit more to it.

Weak

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