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Deadland

DS Alexandra Cupidi, Book 2

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Deadland

By: William Shaw
Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
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The best-selling William Shaw returns with a thrilling investigation in the unmissable new series.

You can run. 

The two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each other. The day they speed off on a moped with a stolen mobile, they're ready to celebrate their luck at last. Until their victim comes looking for what's his - and ready to kill for it.

You can hide.

On the other side of Kent's wealth divide, DS Alexandra Cupidi faces the strangest murder investigation of her career. A severed limb, hidden inside a modern sculpture in Margate's Turner Contemporary. No one takes it seriously - not even the artwork's owners, celebrity dealers who act like they're above the law.  

You can die.

But as Cupidi's case becomes ever more sinister, as she wrangles with police politics and personal dilemmas, she can't help worrying about those runaway boys. Seventeen, the same age as her own headstrong daughter. Alone, on the marshes, they're pawns in someone else's game. Two worlds are about to collide. 

Kent and its social divisions are brilliantly captured in Deadland, a crime thriller that's as ingeniously unguessable as it is moving and powerful.

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this is 'good stuff'; grabs the reader and doesn't let go until the last word is read

Excellent series

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Just finished the second round with this, and I found it even better than the first listen a couple of years ago. Written by a very wise man who paints his figures with great love and understanding.

brilliant!

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This is a new author and new detective, previously unknown to me.
Happy I took a chance after reading the review in Saturday's Times 2 supplement.
Will be buying others in this series.

Glad I read the Times review

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I have to start by saying the narrator absolutely nails this book and it's characters for me. There's something about her voice, combined with the beautiful bleakness of that Thames Estuary neck of the woods and the incredibly believable main characters, that I found strangely comforting.....
I love the two female leads in this series, seeing their strengths and vulnerabilities as you follow them through the pages. Everything about the characters in this book feels so VERY human.
Don't be mislead by my use of the word 'comfort' though...this is a crime story, it's violent and hard hitting, the author says it as it is and at times I found myself holding my breath in anticipation of what was coming next.
I can't wait to get started on the next volume.

Home Grown Crime at it's best....

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Really enjoyed listening to this. Jasmine Blackborow narrates so well. The story is interesting. The setting of Dungeness adds a clear kind of depth to the characters.


Excellent

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