Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and the author for my gifted Ebook in return for my honest review.

How do you solve a murder when you’re shut out of the investigation?

Young detectives, Robinson Ellington Foxe and Amy Kennard, don’t want to work at Coventry’s Moat Lane police station.  Neither do their colleagues want them there. But it’s the last chance for two officers for whom doing the right thing has cost them their futures.

Despite a murder on their patch, they are lumbered with investigating a series of high-profile burglaries. But when a thief is killed in the house of an influential businessman, Foxe and Kennard are convinced it is linked to their cases and want in.

The official investigation is a whitewash, but Robbie and Amy keep investigating anyway.  As they uncover a web of deceit and corruption, reaching to the very top of the force, their own difficult histories are weaponised against them, and they find themselves fighting for their careers and their lives.

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A brand new series for Paul Gitsham and it’s an excellent read! Set in Coventry, we are introduced to young detectives Foxe and Kennard. Two people who have been sent to work at Moat Lane Police station. A place they don’t want to be and their new colleagues don’t want them either.

They are left out of a murder case and have to investigate a string of high-profile burglaries. Then a thief is killed in the house of an influential businessman, they feel it’s connected somehow and want to join the investigation.


After the official investigation bears no fruit, Foxe and Kennard keep digging. They uncover corruption and deceit reaching to the top of the police force. Will this case lose them their careers and maybe even their lives?

Paul Gitsham has certainly created some great characters in Foxe and Kennard. Two officers who are complete opposites. One is from a wealthy family in the South and the other is a down-to-earth fighter from the North. They are in a place they don’t want to be and are shut out of a murder investigation that originated from their burglary case.

We begin to see what they are made of and how their partnership will form. I believed in them and cheered them on all the way, even when the deck was stacked against them.


A gritty and immersive storyline that gripped me throughout. The skilled way in which the author writes with enough tension and intrigue to keep me engrossed. The pacing is perfect too! I think that Paul Gitsham is such a clever storyteller, no matter which book you are reading by him. That’s why, for me, he is one of my go-to authors!

I read this all too quickly as the pages sped by and the chapters got closer to an ending that I wasn’t expecting! This author never lets me down and I am on tenterhooks waiting for the next book. A highly recommended read!

Author Bio

Paul Gitsham is the author of the Foxe and Kennard British detective series, the DCI Warren Jones series and the standalone domestic thriller, The Aftermath.
Brought up in Coventry, he started his career as a biologist. After gaining a PhD in molecular biology, he worked in laboratories in Manchester and Toronto, before retraining as a science teacher. Along the way he had spells as the world’s most over-qualified receptionist and spent time working for a major UK bank, ensuring that terrorists, foreign dictators and other international ne’er do wells hadn’t embarrassed the institution by managing to deposit their ill-gotten gains in a Children’s Trust Fund.
Paul’s final school reports from primary school said that he would never achieve anything if his handwriting didn’t improve. A somewhat kinder note urged him to become the next Roald Dahl. If anything, his handwriting has got worse and unless Mr Dahl also wrote police procedurals under a pseudonym, he has failed on both counts.
Paul is a member of the Crime Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers organisation and lives with his wife in the West Midlands in a house with more books than shelf space.

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