Critical Incidents

Robin Lyons is a detective inspector who was dismissed from the Mets Homicide Command for refusing to follow orders. She moves back in with her parents in Birmingham and works as a benefit-fraud investigator. When Corinna's family is engulfed by violence and her missing husband becomes a murder suspect, Robin launches her own unofficial investigation and starts to wonder how well we can know the people we love and how far we will go to protect our own.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 26 December 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Detective Inspector Robin Lyons is going home. Dismissed for misconduct from the Mets Homicide Command after refusing to follow orders, unable to pay her bills or hold down a relationship, she has no choice but to take her teenage daughter Lennie and move back in with her parents in the city she thought she had escaped forever at 18. In Birmingham, sharing a bunk bed with Lennie and navigating the stormy relationship with her mother, Robin works as a benefit-fraud investigator – to the delight of those wanting to see her cut down to size. Only Corinna, her best friend of 20 years, seems happy to have Robin back. But when Corinna's family is engulfed by violence and her missing husband becomes a murder suspect, Robin can't bear to stand idly by as the police investigate. Can she trust them to find the truth of what happened? And why does it bother her so much that the officer in charge is her ex-boyfriend – the love of her teenage life? As Robin launches her own unofficial investigation and realizes there may be a link to the disappearance of a young woman, she starts to wonder how well we can really know the people we love – and how far any of us will go to protect our own.

Detective Inspector Robin Lyons is going home. Dismissed for misconduct from the Mets Homicide Command after refusing to follow orders, unable to pay her bills or hold down a relationship, she has no choice but to take her teenage daughter Lennie and move back in with her parents in the city she thought she had escaped forever at 18. In Birmingham, sharing a bunk bed with Lennie and navigating the stormy relationship with her mother, Robin works as a benefit-fraud investigator – to the delight of those wanting to see her cut down to size. Only Corinna, her best friend of 20 years, seems happy to have Robin back. But when Corinna's family is engulfed by violence and her missing husband becomes a murder suspect, Robin can't bear to stand idly by as the police investigate. Can she trust them to find the truth of what happened? And why does it bother her so much that the officer in charge is her ex-boyfriend – the love of her teenage life? As Robin launches her own unofficial investigation and realizes there may be a link to the disappearance of a young woman, she starts to wonder how well we can really know the people we love – and how far any of us will go to protect our own.

Weight: 284g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008269036