Bond of Blood – Solomon Carter

Edited in December 2022, this gripping second novel in the DI Hogarth series is full of twists and turns. Keeps you guessing throughout.

Hogarth returns home to an unexpected meeting – and a gruesome discovery. He finds a body at a local drop-in centre where rumours of drug dealing are rife.

This should have been a Sunday like any other for Joe Hogarth and Sue Palmer, but it turns out to be anything but. When a pushy but likeable Irishman by the name of Marcus Molloy demands a Sunday morning meeting, Molloy asks Hogarth to keep an eye out for a friend in serious danger.

But Hogarth suspects there’s something more to this request than meets the eye.