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St Andrew’s Day. A back shift from hell. A city about to erupt.

After years working as detective, Sergeant Rakesh Siyal is back in uniform and facing the hard realities of Edinburgh’s streets. With a missing teenager sucking away manpower, his frontline team have to contend with a pub fight in danger of spiralling out of control and turning into something far more dangerous.

Juggling the chaos of the night, Rakesh is called to a domestic dispute that feels all wrong – and his instincts tell him there's more lurking beneath the surface.

As he hunts for a missing dog, tensions soon rise and Rakesh must rely on more than his experience as a detective to navigate a city ready to erupt.

False Dawn follows on from events in His Path of Darkness, the sixth DI Rob Marshall novel.

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Ed James is very good at treading the line between humour, both police and criminal and having a really gritty storyline, giving his stories a good balance of light and dark. A very well written book that sees Rakesh stretching his legs and really being able to carry the story. Angus King of course does a fantastic narration.

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Another excellent book from Ed James, More intrigue from the Scottish police team with more gritty experiences.. Sgt Rakesh Siyal, is waiting impatiently for his recall back from uniform to Detective, as with most of Ed James books the plot is up and running fast, over a few days with threads that weave in and out of the storyline pulling certain characters together where you hadn't thought they'd be. and as usual the end is nothing like you had been led towards, one surprise after another. Cant wait for the next one

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This was a fabulous read a great spinoff which made me laugh out loud. The characters are enchanting and it’s wonderful getting to know them.

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When you get Ed James writing a book
, you have the fabulous Angus King narrating it , you just know you are onto a winner , although the ending was a bit short , but loved the storyline and ofcourse the narration

Fabulous !!

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Rakesh is a direct entry police officer into Police Scotland as a Detective Sargent. He was working in the equivalent to internal affairs until his boss retired and the new boss wanted their own team. He then was moved to uniform- a step he had missed through his recruitment process.
This story takes place over an eventful ‘back shift’.
I enjoyed the book with its many twists and turns but felt that too much coincidence too place.

An interesting spinoff

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