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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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About this listen

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.

©2019 William Shaw (P)2019 Quercus Editions Limited Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Crime Exciting Suspense Murder

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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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After listening to the first DS Alex novel I went straight into book number two which I have to say was even better great storyline well read and lots of intrigue.
Can’t wait for book number three.

A great second book

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Occasionally a story will wake you in the night so that you have to find out what's going on before you go back to sleep. This was one of thise stories. Told from the point of view of the two female police officers and also from two runaway teenage boys, William Shaw gives you enough clues to draw your own conclusions, but not enough to finally unravel the plot. As someone from south of the river I enjoyed the geographical locations and i thought Jasmine Blackborow did a great job with the accents.

A Binge Listen

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Great story with great narration. It was trully fantastic! I was gripped throughout. Highly recommended.

best book yet

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