DC Jake Tanner Crime Thriller

Jake Tanner, a trainee detective constable with Croydon CID, is eager to impress his bosses. So when a body is found face-down in the city’s farmlands, head crushed, split in two, Jake jumps at the opportunity. The victim is soon identified as Zeke Harrison. A successful businessman and philanthropist. A man who had it all. But, as the investigation into his death develops, it becomes clear that Zeke had more secrets than success.

The owner of a jewelry store has been kidnapped. The people responsible are known as The Crimsons, an organized crime group the police have been hunting for years.

When DC Jake Tanner is transferred from London to Guildford, he quickly finds himself entangled in a botched robbery by The Crimsons, a notorious gang from his past. As he races to save the shop owner’s life, Tanner uncovers a sinister conspiracy within Surrey Police. Caught between his duty and the temptation to ignore the truth, Tanner has to navigate a treacherous landscape of deceit and betrayal.

Inside a London art gallery, a young couple are brutally murdered in a chilling tableau: their bodies dismember, the word “liar” visibly inscribed on the woman’s chest. DC Jake Tanner, still suffering from the mental and physical toll of his last case, doesn’t know what to think. Was this a revenge killing or something worse? His questions are answered when another body turns up and a series of alarming and gruesome clues begin to emerge.

Dead men can’t speak. When Danny Cipriano’s body is discovered buried in a concrete tomb at the London Olympic Stadium, one thing becomes clear: the former leader of the Crimsons knew too much. And somebody wanted him silenced. For good.

Henry Matheson owns the drug trade in East London. To his competitors, he’s feared. To his customers, he’s God. To the police, he’s untouchable. But when the smoldering remains of Henry’s closest competitor are discovered dangling from a lamppost in the middle of his estate, one man decides to take him on: Jake Tanner. But he can’t do it alone. And with The Cabal’s clandestine network of corrupt officers threatening him and his family at every turn, Jake doesn’t know who to trust.