When the Bough Breaks

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Traffic cop Sal Delaneys past is catching up with her . . . Sunday Times bestselling author David Mark delivers a pulse-pounding new dark and gritty police procedural series set in the north of England, with a complex, intriguing female protagonist.North of England. Cumbria. Salome Delaney didnt have a great start in life. But her abusive childhood came to a tragic conclusion with the killing of her tyrant mother, Trina, by a jealous ex-boyfriend. At least, thats what the police say. Sal has never believed kind Wulf, who tried to protect her from her mothers dark side, could have committed such a crime, but the evidence was irrefutable . . . and who else could have done it?Now an adult, with a good job as a Collison Investigation Officer, Sals done her best to put the past behind her. But one snowy morning shes called to an accident scene, and she recognizes the body Barry Ford, the man her mother left Wulf for, all those years ago.It soon becomes clear this wasnt just an accident it was murder. And Wulf, now out of prison, lives very close by . . .The question of who really killed her mother has haunted Sal her whole life, but as she launches a complex investigation, which gets darker by the hour, she starts to wonder if she really wants to know the answer after all.