Following disciplinary action, PC Sarah Gladstone, a happily married mother of two, is reluctantly enrolled onto Mavenwood's fast-track Detective training programme. As she begins her investigative training, her tutor, DS Dales, a long-serving British detective with the emotional scars to prove it, warns her about the insidious nature of detective work. He’s concerned that Sarah's career will leave her as it’s left him—bitter and with a string of broken marriages. When a woman is found dead in a luxurious hotel room, Sarah attends what at first appears to be a routine suicide. As the case turns into a murder investigation, she begins to uncover a disturbing pattern of sinister connections and unlikely suspects that leads her a little too close to home… Like police procedural series? Like strong female detective novels? Get this crime fiction new release today. **

A murdered priest leaves behind records of confessional secrets...What would you have to hide?Read the first novel in the Sarah Gladstone series. New British Detective Novel from Ex- Detective Darryl DonaghueA small town in the English countryside isolated by a severe storm, and a young female officer, alone and out of her depth. A troubled priest is brutally murdered, leaving behind a journal of the residents' confessional secrets; secrets certain people would have preferred he took to the grave. As word spreads, the pressure rises as the eyes of the town watch her every move. With no forensic team, no support and a savage killer hiding in a turbulent town, is PC Sarah Gladstone up to the task?Looking for a new female detective novel series to follow? Get the first in the series today!**