Death in Dark Waters

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After a night out clubbing, the son of a wealthy local businessman is knocked down and left in a coma. His father wants to know who supplied him with ecstasy and Michael Thackery is put on the case. Meanwhile his girlfriend, Laura Ackroyd, is conducting her own investigation into the local drugs problem. The Wuthering Heights estate is controlled by the dealers and they undermine any attempts to improve life in the area. So it is no surprise when the local youth training project is targeted by vandals, but when heroin is found on site and the staff arrested, it seems as though things have started to get serious...**From BooklistSet in Yorkshire, Hall's latest is part police procedural, part thriller, part commentary on problems in modern English culture. At the center of the story is policeman Michael Thackeray, whose personal life is in turmoil--he hasn't recovered from the tragic deaths of his wife and baby son, and he dulls his pain through a love affair with the bottle. Fortunately, this hasn't affected his job performance, at least so far. Thackeray's new love interest is reporter Laura Ackroyd, whose nose for news often brings her into conflict with both Michael and his bosses. When a teenager is injured in a hit-and-run accident after visiting a nightclub and apparently taking Ecstasy, both Thackeray and Ackroyd get involved in the investigation. They soon find a link between this incident and the death of another teenager on a local housing estate, and their subsequent investigation takes them deep into the dark side of the local drug trade. Well written, with a complex and entertaining plot, and plenty of suspense. Emily MeltonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedReview'Hall's style is refreshingly clean and uncluttered, and her narrative achieves a powerful momentum as the layers of deception are stripped away. Her journalist protagonist is an intelligently realised character.' Times Literary Supplement