Publisher: Century [Random House UK]
Release date: 2 January 2025
Back cover blurb: Emma Moon is out. She’s served 16 years for a notorious armed robbery that left two men dead – and enriched many more. But Emma Moon never talked. She kept the code. She never revealed who was with her on the day of the robbery. She never told who killed those two men. And now she is free – and everything has gone. Her family. Her share of the money. And her faithless husband. So Emma Moon is in a hurry. Because it is payback time. And after all those years inside, she has friends who will do anything for her. As the bodies of the innocent and the guilty pile up, only one detective stands between a career criminal and her quest for revenge. The same man who, as a fresh-faced policeman, arrested her all those years ago. Max Wolfe is back. Single parent to a teenage daughter, owner of an ageing dog, music lover, hopeless romantic - and a murder detective who has his own code of honour.
I have missed Max Wolfe! There I said it. I have missed a fictional detective...
In my defence, he is one of my favourite fictional detectives! Along with his dog and his daughter.
We are always given an insight into the “normal” side of his life, how much he cares about things, and this is partly what makes him a great detective.
16 years previously a young Max arrested Emma Moon for her involvement in a robbery than left two innocent men dead and several others on the run with the proceeds.
Emma says she did it for love, and denies knowing what was in the safe.
Max’s instincts tell him to believe her, but his colleagues don’t.
When one by one her old adversaries begin to die, Max begins to wonder if they are right and Emma is behind it. He knows that people kill for revenge, but something just doesn’t seem right.
And then there’s the murder of an innocent young homeless woman, unconnected to Emma Moon but about to lead Max down a road of police corruption and deprivation like he’s never seen before.
With his own career on the line can Max get to the truth before time runs out?
Murder for Busy People is available from 2 January 2025. You can pre-order it now via Amazon online and all good book shops.
Thank You to the publishers who approved my request via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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