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Salt Lane by William Shaw is the second novel involving DS Alexandra Cupidi and the first where she is the main subject in the story.
Shaw weaves a tale that at first seems to involve several threads one can't imagine are related.
The novel opens with the burning deaths of two boys many years ago and then in returning to current times, describes an apparent vagrant mother visiting a son she once abandoned and has had no contact with and then suddenly fleeing the next morning.
A brief time later Shaw turns to Kent police sergeant DS Alexandria Cupidi who is about to make an appeal to the public regarding the finding of a dead woman in a water-filled drainage ditch. It is believed the woman was murdered, however, no apparent murder method can be determined. The story then unfolds into another fine police procedural.
Shaw does such a fine job in developing the characters of the novel and in describing the local environment and surrounding area.
Shaw's novels are certainly among the higher tier of police procedurals and he tells stories with emotional impact involving characters the reader becomes invested in.
Highly recommended.
Shaw weaves a tale that at first seems to involve several threads one can't imagine are related.
The novel opens with the burning deaths of two boys many years ago and then in returning to current times, describes an apparent vagrant mother visiting a son she once abandoned and has had no contact with and then suddenly fleeing the next morning.
A brief time later Shaw turns to Kent police sergeant DS Alexandria Cupidi who is about to make an appeal to the public regarding the finding of a dead woman in a water-filled drainage ditch. It is believed the woman was murdered, however, no apparent murder method can be determined. The story then unfolds into another fine police procedural.
Shaw does such a fine job in developing the characters of the novel and in describing the local environment and surrounding area.
Shaw's novels are certainly among the higher tier of police procedurals and he tells stories with emotional impact involving characters the reader becomes invested in.
Highly recommended.