Hollow Grave: A breathtaking cold case mystery that will keep you hooked!
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By Kate Webb, and and, James Lailey
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‘Kate Webb is your next must-read’ LUCY FOLEY
‘A wonderful addition to contemporary crime’ ANN CLEEVES
A breathtaking cold case mystery, starring DI Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid.
1999. A group of archaeologists are excavating a Bronze Age burial site in the grounds of Trusloe Hall, a minor stately home in Wiltshire. Excited that their dig is being filmed for a TV documentary, the group are camping onsite and having the time of their lives.
In the blink of an eye, one of the party disappears: a young woman called Nazma Kirmani. An extensive police investigation fails to find any trace of her, and the case goes cold for over twenty years.
2020. When a chance discovery presents new evidence into Nazma’s disappearance, DI Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad are put on the case. Did Nazma intend to disappear, or was she taken? Did she walk out on her life, or was she murdered? Lockyer must see past the upheavals in his own life to find out the truth for her desperate family.
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I really enjoyed this police procedural, set in Wiltshire. It concerns the 20-year-old case of a young woman who’d disappeared in 1999. When a holdall pulled out of the River Kennet in 2020 is found to contain her passport, railcard and £170 in cash, the case is reopened and it’s up to DI Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad to re-examine what happened and why the original police investigation was closed so quickly. It turns into a real cat-and-mouse mystery and although it wasn’t difficult to guess the villain, the way the two detectives uncovered the truth kept me turning the pages. It's one of those books that gradually take hold of you and I'll be looking for more of this series now.
Review by: Cornish Eskimo, Oundle Crime
