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Shallow Waters

Hannah Robbins, Book 1

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Shallow Waters

By: Rebecca Bradley
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
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When the naked, battered body of an unidentified teenager is found dumped in an alleyway, postmortem finds evidence of a harrowing series of events. Another teenage death with the same MO pushes DI Hannah Robbins and her team on the Nottingham City division Major Crimes Unit to their limits - and across county borders.

In a race against the clock, they attempt to unpick a thick web of lies and deceit to uncover the truth behind the deaths. But it doesn't stop there. When catching a killer isn't enough, just how far are the team willing to push themselves to save the next girl?

©2014 Rebecca Bradley (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Exciting

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"A gritty police procedural, with no-holds barred and a shocking insight to the reality of some. Dark and disturbing, yet exceptionally compelling." (Mel Sherratt, author of Taunting the Dead)
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Shallow Waters is actually a very deep book! Hannah Robbins is definitely the police officer I would want investigating if I was the victim of a crime. Once she's got the bit between her teeth, she's not going to let go. You can even try to blow her up and she'll brush herself off and get on with the job. I'm not convinced that Ethan the journalist is the best match for her; I think she could do better, but this is only the first book so we will have to see how that plays out. Hannah's back story, especially her imprisoned sister, Zoe, is dangled tantalisingly in front of us and makes sure we will continue to listen to the next in the series. The police officers reaction to finding a dead child struck me as particularly endearing. They were all shocked and it's good to know that even long serving police officers can still find crime upsetting. It took me a while to acclimatise to Colleen Prendergast's narration; she sounds so young. But that's on me, not Colleen. I've reached that age where all police officers, doctors, politicians etc; look like they've just left school and shouldn't be out after dark without their mummies, so pay no attention to my issues. All in all a thoroughly enjoyable, completely credible police procedural that I'm happy to recommend. Now onto Made to Be Broken, Hannah Robbins book 2.

Not shallow at all!

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It was excellently written and read, loved it. Edge of seat book. Well worth a listern

brilliant

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This was a surprisingly good crime story. It was obvious the author had first hand knowledge of police procedure in the U.K. and used that knowledge cleverly to keep the story moving in the right direction.
Loved the characters throughout and was pleased to find the main character had neither an alcohol problem or was receiving psychiatric treatment as we see too often in other novels of this genre.
Anyway great job and looking forward to reading the next book.

Entertaining

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Good story, good performance but a lot of unnecessary detail that crime fiction fans don't need, it felt like the author was justifying things to herself rather than telling a story to the reader. I will listen to other books by Rebecca Bradley though as I feel this may change.

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Although I guessed who was the bad guy right from the start that’s probably because I’ve read too many detective books. Really great story and book, well narrated. Look forward to reading more from the author.

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