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DEVIL'S CHINMEY
Crime debut by serving police detective Adam Lyndon. For readers of Joy Ellis, Peter James, Angela Marsons, Helen H. Durrant , Elly Griffiths, J.M. Dalgliesh or Patricia Gibney.
Nobody at Sussex Police wants to be PC Harriet 'HRH' Holden's partner. She's a bit stuck up, a stickler for the rules; she rubs people up the wrong way. It's only PC Rutherford Barnes who's happy to work with her. Although they're not friends exactly, he shares Harriet's ambition and idealism. He respects her.
So, when Harriet's battered body is found in a shabby bedroom at the down-at-hell Atlantic Hotel on Eastbourne seafront, Barnes determines to seek justice for his colleague. He sets out to discover who killed Harriet, and why.
As the newly-promoted DC Barnes investigates, he discovers that Harriet had a secret - and she knew the secrets of others. As Barnes uncovers a layer of corruption that leads right to the very top, he faces a terrible decision: justice for Harriet - or his police career.
THE DETECTIVE
DC Rutherford Barnes is young, good-looking and ambitious - perhaps too ambitious for his own good. His all-consuming desire for promotion makes him vulnerable to temptation. His happy marriage to nursery school teacher Eve is marred only by the couple's inability to conceive, leading Barnes to throw himself headlong into his work.
THE SETTING
Set against the picturesque landscape of the South Downs, the Sussex seaside town of Eastbourne is packed with tourists during the summer - but it can seem pretty dismal during the winter months. Only fifty-odd miles from London, the town is not immune to the violence which occasionally spills over from the city. Pockets of deprivation and criminality exist alongside reminders of Eastbourne's more genteel past in the grand Victorian hotels that line the seafront, the pier and the bandstand. The town also boasts one of Britain's best-known - and most infamous - beauty spots, Beachy Head.
Adam Lyndon was born and raised in Sussex. He has been a police officer for twenty years both in the UK and in New Zealand, working across a range of disciplines including uninformed ops, firearms command and as a detective in CID and specialist investigations. Adam has been married for twenty years and has four children. His ambition, as his children keep reminding him, is to own a dog. Devil's Chimney is his first novel.
So, when Harriet's battered body is found in a shabby bedroom at the down-at-hell Atlantic Hotel on Eastbourne seafront, Barnes determines to seek justice for his colleague. He sets out to discover who killed Harriet, and why.
As the newly-promoted DC Barnes investigates, he discovers that Harriet had a secret - and she knew the secrets of others. As Barnes uncovers a layer of corruption that leads right to the very top, he faces a terrible decision: justice for Harriet - or his police career.
THE DETECTIVE
DC Rutherford Barnes is young, good-looking and ambitious - perhaps too ambitious for his own good. His all-consuming desire for promotion makes him vulnerable to temptation. His happy marriage to nursery school teacher Eve is marred only by the couple's inability to conceive, leading Barnes to throw himself headlong into his work.
THE SETTING
Set against the picturesque landscape of the South Downs, the Sussex seaside town of Eastbourne is packed with tourists during the summer - but it can seem pretty dismal during the winter months. Only fifty-odd miles from London, the town is not immune to the violence which occasionally spills over from the city. Pockets of deprivation and criminality exist alongside reminders of Eastbourne's more genteel past in the grand Victorian hotels that line the seafront, the pier and the bandstand. The town also boasts one of Britain's best-known - and most infamous - beauty spots, Beachy Head.
Adam Lyndon was born and raised in Sussex. He has been a police officer for twenty years both in the UK and in New Zealand, working across a range of disciplines including uninformed ops, firearms command and as a detective in CID and specialist investigations. Adam has been married for twenty years and has four children. His ambition, as his children keep reminding him, is to own a dog. Devil's Chimney is his first novel.
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Published 2022-06-23 by Joffe Books |