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Shaw, William,

Salt Lane. / William Shaw. - London Riverrun 2018. - 400 p. 24 cm. - DS Alexandra Cupidi 1 . - DS Alexandra Cupidi 1 .

No-one knew their
names, the bodies found in the water. There are people
here, in plain sight, that no-one ever notices at all.DS
Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt
to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent
her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London
Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Even murder looks
different in this landscape of fens, ditches and stark
beaches, shadowed by the towers of Dungeness power
station. Murder looks a lot less pretty.The man drowned in
the slurry pit had been herded there like an animal. He
was North African, like many of the fruit pickers that
work the fields. The more Cupidi discovers, the more she
wants to ask - but these people are suspicious of
questions.It will take an understanding of this strange
place - its old ways and new crimes - to uncover the dark
conspiracy behind the murder. Cupidi is not afraid to
travel that road. But she should be. She should, by now,
have learnt.Salt Lane is the first in the new DS Alexandra
Cupidi series. With his trademark characterisation and
flair for social commentary, William Shaw has crafted a
crime novel for our time that grips you, mind and heart.

ISBN: 1786486571 9781786486578

Subjects--Personal Names:
Alexandra Cupidi (Ficticiouc character), --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Murder--Investigation--England--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery fiction.