Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme run by Wishful Endings and previously Breaking The Spine. We’re here to spotlight upcoming releases and tell you what we’re most excited to read. Want to join in? Let @Tressa tell you all about it, or keep reading to view my choice this week..
Dead Ground; M W Craven
Release Date: June 3 2021
Genre: Crime
Publisher: Constable
*****
Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused – he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp – but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.
As Poe and the socially awkward programmer Tilly Bradshaw delve deeper into the case, they are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions: despite being heavily vetted for a high-profile job, why does nothing in the victim’s background check out? Why was a small ornament left at the murder scene – and why did someone on the investigation team steal it? And what is the connection to a flawlessly executed bank heist three years earlier, a heist where nothing was taken…
*****
I saw so many people shout about The Puppet Show, it wasn’t until a year or so later I gave it a try and was instantly besotted with the characters. I cannot get enough Craven now! Have you been lucky enough to read this title pre-publication? Drop your review links in my comments, I’d love to see what I’m in for..
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hugely looking forward to this one!
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I cant believe I took so long to try Craven!
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