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Hidden Crimes
Hidden Crimes | Michael Hambling
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Exploring a foggy Wiltshire hill path, a walker hears a distant scream and calls the police, but the attending officers find nothing.
Two days later, a farmworker comes across a woman’s body, her head bashed in. The victim is quickly identified as Bridget Kirkbride, who lived alone in a small cottage in a pretty nearby village.
Detective Sophie Allen is called in. It’s her first major case as head of the newly-formed Wessex Serious Crime Unit — and she’s under pressure to get a quick result.
Bridget was a mainstay of village life, always ready to help out her neighbours. No one has a bad word to say about her.
So who killed her?
Her supposedly devoted son, Grant, has disappeared without trace.
Then a body is pulled out of a reed bed in the River Severn.
Sophie and her team are in a race against time to uncover the truth before anyone else pays the ultimate price.
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MrsK
Hidden Crimes | Michael Hambling
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Mehso-so

Police procedural which initially drew me in. Well conceived plot with timely subject matter. The reader was provided with insights which made the motive for the murders, as well as the culprit, fairly easy to spot early on. The killer is identified two-thirds of the way through, and the pace begin to lag. The last third of the book felt rather drawn out, but with the anticipation of an arrest the story does pick up speed.