Coldharbour
The Met Police’s Major Investigation Team East has its hands full: a rash of tit for
tat gang related stabbings, a strangled housewife, the decomposed remains of a
woman found in a ditch and more to come. Adding to their woes is their boss,
Chief Inspector Matthew Merry, being distracted by his problems at home.
For Matthew’s wife,
Kathy, her only concern is dealing with the aftermath of being drugged and
raped by a co-worker. Will the trial of the man responsible be enough to give
her the justice she demands. Or, as her therapist states, is it revenge she
really desires. She doesn’t know. As
her emotions see-saw from elation to depression, her only certainty is that her
husband seems more concerned about his work than her.
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Excerpt
“Coldharbour Lane was a
long road to nowhere – at least that was how Matthew remembered it from his childhood, and at
the time, it was certainly true. He and his mates would cycle along it, out
past a few sprawling, dismal-looking factories, a couple of large yards full of
stacks of wooden pallets and empty crates, then finally an enormous breaker’s yard with its piles of scrap metal, rusting
cars, barking dogs and an even more menacing owner. Then they reached world’s end: an enormous stretch of marshland,
reaching down from the A13 to the Thames, crossed only by a few dirt tracks. A
flat wildness of nothing, populated only by the boys who could run wild away
from the restraints of civilisation.”
John Mead
John
was born in the mid-fifties in Dagenham, London, on part of the largest council
estate ever built, and was the first pupil from his local secondary modern
school to attend university. He has now taken early retirement to write, having
spent the first part of his life working in education and the public sector. He
was the director of a college, a senior school inspector for a local authority,
and was head of a unit for young people with physical and mental health needs.
When he is not travelling, going to the theatre or the pub, he writes.
John
is currently working on a seies of novels set in modern day London. These
police procedurals examine the darker side of modern life in the East End of
the city
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