Broken Harbor, Tana French

Mick ’Scorcher’ Kennedy has the best solve rate in all of the murder squad and he doesn't go for the easy cases-but this one could prove his undoing. The family have been attacked in their own home on an exclusive but unfinished housing development now known as Brianstown.

Scorcher can remember when it was Broken Harbour an isolated, but beautiful strip of land dotted with caravans, close to the sea, loaded with memories Scorcher thought he’d buried forever. On the face of it this seems to be an open and shut domestic, but both Scorcher and his wet-behind-the-ears partner Richie sense that this is going to be a tough one.

Was someone stalking the family? Why does the house have holes knocked in the walls and baby monitors everywhere and what’s with the mantrap in the loft?

Scorcher and his partner not only have to contend with hostile witnesses, but interference from family and colleagues. They’re just a rookie mistake away from getting busted back to traffic division and to save his case Scorcher may have to sacrifice his most prized possession.