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There are two elderly women side characters, one of whom struggles with dementia, and Tyler is told that old women in small towns always love gossip; he refers to them often as “the old dears. Again, he does this with a light touch that leaves the reader in no doubt about the difficulties these officers have to deal with – and that’s before you factor in the crimes they’re investigating. Adam's a bit of a loner, reluctant to forge relationships and he's a dogged investigator who perhaps needs a little bit of training (or a large bit) on his inter-personal skills.

Nighthawking and Cold Reckoning, the second and third books in the series, followed in 2021 and 2022. There are the elderly neighbours, the cancer ridden ex-headteacher, Edna Burnside, living with the dementia suffering Lily Bainbridge, they looked after Oscar when he was a child. I love a memorable, flawed protagonist and Adam does not disappoint; I found myself rooting for this tenacious character from the very beginning.

A man who went missing years ago is found walked up in his empty house and the son of the victim turns out to have been Tyler’s one night stand. Tyler doesn’t expend the time or energy on making friends or influencing people, and he doesn’t seem to care.

Detective Sergeant Tyler Adams is a rich, intelligent, tortured, thought-provoking character who struggles to find an arsonist who is setting fires in the small village of Sheffield. Fairly often a lead character will overshadow the others, but this author has put just as much into all of them. Firewatching is his debut novel and the first book in a new series of crime thrillers set in Sheffield.Adam Tyler works in the CCRU (Cold Case Review Unit) and isn't particularly liked by his colleagues, because he actually gets results. S. Tyler, this is her first time working as a plain clothes detective, something she has long aspired to do. If you’re going to read it, get it cheap or free, because most of the joy I see here is in potential, and future maybe-joy makes a thin soup indeed. He makes the snap decision not to tell his superiors, certain that he and only he can solve the crime.

Tyler isn't unlikable, but he's anti-social, most likely due to his family drama and the loss of his father to suicide when he was a teenager.the book was fine, it's just I wasn't really gripped by the book, and didn't really care what happened to the main characters. The main protagonist and central point-of-view character, DS Tyler, is an excellent study in character building. There are plenty of triggers including rape, pedophilia, physical and spousal abuse so be careful if you about to read this.

Both added extra dimensions, Jim with his old school banter and Amina with her ambitious drive and determination to succeed.

Far from a simple murder mystery, Thomas leads readers into a story defined by secrets and intrigues, horrors and vengeance, lies of omission and commission, weaving past and present together and complicating the investigative procedural in various ways, including a cold case and what becomes the race to catch not only a killer but an arsonist as well. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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