by Olly Jarvis
He tweets from @ollyjarviso and @crimehubsite.
Hobeck Advanced Reader Team
Hobeck Books has a team of dedicated advanced readers who read our books before publication (not all of them, they choose which they would like to read). Here is what they said about The Genesis Inquiry.
‘I found myself having to read just one more chapter before I could go to sleep!’
‘…will keep you hooked…’
‘…fast moving and exciting.’
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Other Hobeck Books to Explore
The Rock Crime Series by Robert Daws
The Rock
DS Tamara Sullivan, fighting to save her career is exiled to Gibraltar from London's Metropolitan Police after a lapse of judgement.
But this is no sleepy siesta of a posting on the Mediterranean. Paired with her new boss, DCI Gus Broderick, Sullivan will need all her skills to survive the most dangerous case of her career.
Poisoned Rock
As the bright lights of a Hollywood movie production shine into the dark recesses of Gibraltar, murky secrets emerge from the shadows of the Rock's past.
It seems the legacy of wartime spying, sabotage and treachery runs deep on the Rock.
Past and present collide plunging detectives Tamara Sullivan and Gus Broderick into a tangled web of intrigue and murder, and their skills and uneasy working relationship are about to be tested to the limit.
Killing Rock
A wealthy household massacred in Spain. Unidentified mummified remains found at the foot of The Rock. A US Congressman's run for President hangs on events in Gibraltar. What's the connection?
Detectives Tamara Sullivan and Gus Broderick face the most dangerous and elusive murder investigation of their lives, and for Broderick, it's about to become all too personal, with his career in real peril as his past comes back to haunt him.
Will Sullivan and Broderick's partnership survive this latest case, as killers stalk the narrow streets of Gibraltar?
The Merseyside Crime Series by Malcolm Hollingdrake
Catch as Catch Can
A mutilated body apparently washed up on a windswept beach. A violent criminal gang preys on moped riders across the area. A teenage girl is desperate to escape sexual exploitation.
It’s a tough introduction to Merseyside for Detective Inspector April Decent, who’s just arrived from her native Yorkshire. Together with new colleague Skeeter Warlock, Decent quickly discovers there’s a sinister link between them all, one that will bring them face-to-face with some uncomfortable home truths.
Syn
An everyday Friday night out. A few too many drinks. A few harsh words said. No one was hurt. All easily forgotten.
Except he didn’t forget. Their threats. How they made him feel. They must pay – with their lives.
A young woman goes missing. She’s done it before, but Detective Inspector April Decent senses this time it’s serious. Can she convince her colleagues she’s right before it’s too late?
The Clifford-Mackenzie Crime Series by R.D. Nixon
Crossfire
Hogmanay 1987 and a prank robbery has fatal consequences. Five years later and the Highlands town Abergarry is shaken by the seemingly gratuitous murder of a local man. The case is unsolved.
Now in the present and ten-year-old Jamie, while on holiday in Abergarry with his mum Charis, overhears a conversation. To him, it is all part of a game. But this is no game and the consequences are far more serious than Jamie ever imagined.
Struggling PI team Maddy Clifford and Paul Mackenzie find themselves involved by a chance meeting. How deep into those wounds will they have to delve to unravel the mystery?
The Jane Haven Thriller Series by Antony Dunford
Hunted
Once a member of the world’s first all-female special forces unit, the Norwegian Hunter Troop, Jane Haven is now helping her brother Kennet protect some of the world's most endangered animals at his Kenyan Wildlife Conservancy.
Drawn away from her vigil protecting Douglas, the world's last remaining male Northern White rhino, Jane returns to find a scene of devastation and murder.
Everything and everyone Jane cares for is affected.
But before she can track down the killers, Jane finds that she's the one being hunted.
The Betancourt Crime Series by Mark Wightman
Waking the Tiger
Longlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Crime Novel of 2021 and shortlisted for the Crime Debut of 2021, Mark Wightman’s Waking the Tiger is historic crime fiction at its best.
Singapore, 1939 and a young Japanese woman is found dead on the dockside, her throat slashed. A distinctive tiger tattoo is the only clue to her identity.
Inspector Maximo Betancourt is working a new beat, one he didn’t ask for. Following the disappearance of his wife, his life and career have fallen apart.
Once a rising star of Singapore CID, Betancourt has been relegated to the Marine Division, with tedious dockyard disputes and goods inspections among his new duties.
But when a beautiful, unidentified Japanese woman is found murdered in the shadow of a warehouse owned by one of Singapore’s most powerful families, Betancourt defies orders and pursues those responsible. What he discovers will bring him into conflict with powerful enemies, and force him to face his personal demons.
Also by Olly Jarvis
Death by Dangerous
Cut-Throat Defence
Unconvicted
