Book Description

MEET DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN IN THIS BESTSELLING SERIES FROM A FORMER POLICE OFFICER.A twisted killer. A deadly game. A detective who must break the rules to win.Detective Kate is sunning herself on the beach at an exclusive Mexican resort, feeling emboldened enough to shed her bikini top. Then she gets an anonymous text. Hi Kate, Are your detective skills as good as your boobs?Later that night, someone breaks into her hotel room and rifles through her belongings. And a woman plunges to her death from the balcony above.Is it all connected? Kate is relieved to escape the unwelcome attention and return home. But back in Somerset, she reaches into her coat pocket and finds a scrawled See You Soon, Kate.Has her stalker followed her home?Someone is watching Kate. They know where she lives, where she works. They seem to know her every move. But what is it they want?Then the local vicar plunges to his death from the top of the bell tower. Just like the woman in Mexico.The next day, someone calls the local “I killed him.”And Kate finds that she’s an unwilling participant in a deadly game. She must enter the mind of a twisted killer and stay one step ahead of him.Because if he catches her up . . . she’s dead.DISCOVER AN ADDICTIVE CRIME THRILLER FULL OF TWISTS YOU WON’T WANT TO PUT DOWN.Perfect for fans of Rachel Abbott, Robert Bryndza, Joy Ellis, Mel Sherratt, Angela Marsons, Helen H. Durrant, Colin Dexter or Ruth Rendell.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT DAVID ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “ Absolutely brilliant , adrenaline pumping story that had me turning page after page all the way to the end. Another excellent read from one of my favourite authors.” Jill B.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Another excellent addition to ‘The Levels’ series. Thoroughly enjoyable read as ever from David Hodges.” Charlotte M.THE DETECTIVESDetective Sergeant Kate Lewis is a feisty detective with a dynamic approach to her job. She is tenacious, but also prone to being headstrong. This often lands her in tight spots, earning her the nicknames ‘Maverick’ or ‘Go-It-Alone’ Kate, and it puts her on a collision course with the more bureaucratic hierarchy of the force.In contrast to Kate, her detective constable husband and partner, Hayden, is an overweight, untidy, ex-public schoolboy with a pompous, laidback attitude and an old-fashioned view of life, which drives Kate to distraction. But he is also highly intelligent with a reasoned approach to everything, which, can sometimes act as a brake on his partner’s impulsive behaviour.THE SETTINGA patchwork of fields, peat moor and marshland, dotted with picturesque villages and criss-crossed by man-made irrigation ditches or rhynes, the Somerset Levels covers an area of about 160,000 acres between the Mendips and Quantock Hills. Sparsely populated and prone to flooding with a brooding stillness, which creeps into the very soul; a secret place bound to fire the imagination of any self-respecting crime novelist, whose thoughts will invariably turn to . . . murder.THE AUTHORDavid Hodges is a former police superintendent, with thirty years’ service. He has received critical media acclaim, is the author of sixteen published crime novels, with his Somerset Levels Murder series attracting keen interest in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, as well as in the UK.DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN MYSTERY SERIESBook 1: MURDER ON THE LEVELSBook 2: REVENGE ON THE LEVELSBook 3: FEAR ON THE LEVELSBook 4: KILLER ON THE LEVELSBook 5: SECRETS ON THE LEVELSBook 6: DEATH ON THE LEVELSBook 7: POISON ON THE LEVELSBook 8: WITCH FIRE ON THE LEVELSBook 9: STALKER ON THE LEVELSBook 10: VENOM ON THE LEVELSBook 11: WATCHER ON THE LEVELS