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The Dark

By: Sharon Bolton
Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
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ONCE, SHE SAVED HIS LIFE...

NOW, HE'LL TAKE HERS.

When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames, off-duty police officer Lacey Flint is there to prevent disaster. But who would want to hurt a child?

DCI Mark Joesbury has been expecting this. Monitoring a complex network of dark web sites, Joesbury and his team have spotted a new terrorist threat from the extremist, women-hating, group known as 'incels' or 'involuntary celibates.' Joesbury's team are trying to infiltrate the ring of power at its core, but the dark web is built for anonymity, and the incel army is vast.

Pressure builds when the team learn the snatched child was just the first in a series of violent attacks designed to terrorise women. Worse, the leaders of the movement seem to have singled out Lacey as the embodiment of everything they hate, placing her in terrible danger...

©2022 Sharon Bolton (P)2022 Orion Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Detective Exciting Scary Suspense
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Such a powerful and important subject at its core - the insidious and horrifying reality of the Incel movement. So we’ll written. Unflinching and brutally honest portrayal of this group. A wonderful side story about Lacey’s true past and a wonderful group of supporting characters. And the cherry on top - the stunning narration. Can’t wait to read or listen to the others in this series and all of Sharon Bolton’s other novels. Have read ‘The Craftsman’ and it’s a corker too! My new favourite author.

Absolutely superb. A must read for anyone.

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I’m feeling really sad that I appear to of come to the final book in this series so far .. I could see it was a king break between the last book and this one , but I really hope Sharon has pen to paper and is writing the next ., brilliant unique storylines and incredible narration . Very highly recommend this series

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I’ve loved all of the Lacey Flint series and this one is up to Sharon Bolton’s usual excellent standard. I found the events in The Dark deeply disturbing and discomforting because the ideology described already exists in so many different countries and cultures around the world. Sadly, I feel that that it is not beyond the bounds of reality that the insidious nature of such ideology could taint the human rights of women in this country in the future. The characters and back stories remain interesting and the narration is excellent as usual.

Disturbing

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Our heroine has more shocks and cunning criminals to overcome. Gripping and taut as we ve come to expect from Sharon Bolton. If you’ve been following Lacey from the start you ll gulp this one down!
Admirably narrated too .

Lacey Flint

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Great writing, narration, story and characters. What more can you ask for? Very female led too.

Ticked my boxes

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