I do like her, but she will rub just about everyone the wrong way at some point or other, including the reader. I read the first in the series and knew Manon and Fly and how they can to be a family, but I guess I forgot how unlikeable Manon can be. The investigation swirls with greater and greater urgency, and as it begins to circle in on Manon’s home and her family, she finds herself pitted against the former colleagues she once held dear-Davy Walker and Harriet Harper.Ĭan Manon separate what she feels about the people she loves, from the suspicion hanging over them? Can she interrogate the evidence, just as she would with any other case? And when Manon instructs defence lawyer Mark Talbot to work alongside her, can she refrain from throwing herself at him in a manner unbecoming to a woman at an advanced stage of pregnancy? Manon must fight to find the truth with every fiber of her being. More dramatically, he was also Manon’s sister Ellie’s ex, and the father of her toddler son. Yet when a wealthy victim is found stabbed close to police HQ, she can’t help but sidle in on the briefing: he is a banker from London, worth millions. Being there for the children, and home by five, is what Manon tells herself she needs. Manon feared Fly, increasingly sullen and adolescent, was getting in with the wrong crowd at school, or possibly that he was the wrong crowd. He needed a fresh start-he was being forever stopped and searched in London by officers who couldn’t see past the color of his skin. She can devote herself to bringing up her two children-the new baby, and her adopted 12-year-old son Fly Dent.

Instead, she is in hot-pursuit of work-life balance and parked in a cold case corridor-the price she’s had to pay for a transfer back to Cambridgeshire. Purchase at or Purchase at Amazonĭetective Manon Bradshaw is five months pregnant and has officially given up on finding romantic love. Published by Random House on July 4, 2017

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