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Chloe - Prime Victim

Dan Laughey

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Summary

A retired policeman takes a fall. A suspected sex attacker goes AWOL. His accuser is missing too. As violence and drug spiking rocket, the only legal brothel in England suffers the public’s wrath and a motley crew of zealots campaign to shut it down.
 
D.I. Carl Sant has his work cut out keeping the peace, and that’s before a pair of corpses get dumped in a frosty field and the spring turns very chilly indeed.
 
Sant and his fellow detectives go on the hunt for muggers, pimps, lost girls and ruthless killers. Business as usual for the police and their troubled lot. But is Inspector Sant still up to the job?
 
A riveting crime thriller full of twists and turns, 'Chloe - Prime Victim' is the third book in Dan Laughey's Carl Sant Murder Mysteries series.
Available since: 03/18/2023.
Print length: 236 pages.

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