Whilst detective John Blizzard looks into a series of drug-related deaths, an old nemesis appears who threatens to cloud his judgement.

Frustrated with the slow progress of his colleagues’ investigation into the

deaths of several youngsters

on his patch, DCI John Blizzard takes over, determined to catch the drug pushers. In so doing, he stumbles across information that might help solve a

murder that occurred when he first joined CID

.Many years ago, Des Fairley was shot dead after mouthing off about

feared local villain

Morrie Raynor. Now with Raynor’s old righthand man on death’s door, delirious, and in hospital, the detective is convinced he will reveal

secrets about the unsolved crime

.Suspecting that Raynor, whom he once put behind bars but is now free and at large, is linked to both cases, he rubs fellow officers up the wrong way when he insists on

an unusual line of inquiry

.Against the wishes of his superintendent and increasingly

at odds with his staff

, desperate to catch Raynor, the detective puts the general hospital at the centre of his investigation. But

will his instincts prove to be right

, or is old age finally getting the better of the veteran crime solver?If you enjoy murder mysteries full of red herrings and twists, THE SECRETS MAN is for you. THE SECRETS MAN is the fourth in a series of murder mysteries set in the fictional northern city of Hafton, England. The full list of books is as follows:1. THE LONG DEAD2. STRANGE LITTLE GIRL3. THE RAILWAY MAN4. THE SECRETS MAN5. A BREACH OF TRUST6. DEATH LIST7. A FLICKER IN THE NIGHT8. THE LATCH MAN9. NO AGE TO DIE10. THE VENGEANCE MAN11. THE NAME ON THE BULLETAll of these are available free with Kindle unlimited, and in paperback. If you enjoy novels by Peter James, Val McDermid and Ian Rankin, or classic detective fiction by Agatha Christie and GK Chesterton, you'll love these books.

THE NUMBER ONE AMAZON BESTSELLER!The one case he couldn't crack was the one that finally broke him.Haunted by his inability to track down and save his missing wife, DCI Robert Kett leaves the Metropolitan Police behind and moves to Norwich with his three young children, hoping to heal their broken family.But his newfound peace doesn’t last. Two newspaper delivery girls have gone missing in the city, and the clues point to a serial kidnapper.Kett is dragged into the centre of one of the darkest cases of his career—a case that pits him head to head against a horrifying evil.And a case that might uncover the terrible truth of what happened to his wife.The first book in the internationally bestselling DCI Kett crime thriller series, with over a million copies sold to date. Terrifying and unputdownable, Paper Girls is officially “a gripping debut!” (JD Kirk), and "the most exciting crime fiction debut we've read this year!" (Thrilling Fiction).Binge the series now:PAPER GIRLSBAD DOGTHREE LITTLE PIGSWHIP CRACKRUN RABBIT RUNSTONE COLD DEADEVERY MOTHER'S SONSWEET BRIAR ROSEJAW BREAKERKNOCK KNOCKKING RATKNUCKLE BONESLUCKY NUMBER SEVENUNHOLY SAINTSTRULY MADLY DEADLYEVERY LAST DEVILRED LINEAlex Smith wrote his first book when he was six. It wasn’t particularly good, but it did have some supernatural monsters in it. His latest books, the DCI Robert Kett thrillers, have monsters in them too, although these monsters are very human, and all the more terrifying for it. In between, he has published fourteen novels for children and teenagers under his full name, Alexander Gordon Smith—including the number one bestselling series Escape From Furnace, which is loved by millions of readers worldwide and which is soon to become a motion picture. He lives in Norwich with his wife and three young daughters.

When a teenager is the victim of an unprovoked attack while walking his dog, he picks up the nearest thing to hand to defend himself.A brick.A murder investigation begins. A cruel twist of fate makes his innocent family the targets of a vicious campaign of terror. As the detectives of Liverpool’s Major Investigation Team try to contain the violence, several key members of an organised crime family begin to topple, causing shockwaves across the planet.What the reviewers think;

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