Death’s Grip (DS Tomek Bowen Crime Thriller Book 2)

DS Tomek Bowen’s life has always been complicated, but his world is upended when he learns he has a thirteen-year-old daughter. Suspended from duty and struggling with the idea of fatherhood, he’s unexpectedly called back to work: a schoolgirl has been abducted after getting into a stranger’s car.

Now reinstated, Tomek must navigate a volatile investigation while trying to build a relationship with the child he never expected. But as the search intensifies, one question haunts him: will he be too late for both the case and his chance at family?

Death’s Grip is the unforgettable second book in the DS Tomek Bowen Essex Murder Mystery series by Jack Probyn. Filled with twists, peppered with romance and flavoured with ounces of dark humour, this fast-paced British detective novel will keep you guessing until the very end when the final shocking twist is revealed. Perfect for fans of JD Kirk, JM Dalgliesh, TG Reid, Simon McCleave and Rachel Mclean.

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THE SETTING
Canvey Island, with its low-lying marshes and silent, brackish waters, feels like a place cut off from the rest of Essex. The island’s isolation, surrounded by the dark, slow-moving waters of the Thames, gives it an unsettling stillness. Sea defenses and forgotten corners of the shoreline hint at a past riddled with floods and unspoken tragedies. Here, as the fog and rain roll in, the island takes on a haunting air, as if the land itself remembers things best left buried beneath its soggy surface.

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MEET THE DETECTIVE
Now on the wrong side of forty, DS Tomek Bowen has begun to worry more about the little things. Like the food he puts in his body, how many pints he can have without feeling too hungover, and what beard dye to use for his increasingly greying hair. But now he has something more important to worry about: a thirteen-year-old daughter he knew nothing about until recently. Now he’s a father, life and all its delicate intricacies have become infinitely more difficult and troublesome. On an island at constant risk of flooding, will he sink or swim?