The brilliant third novel in the Stone and Oliver series by award-winning author, Mari Hannah, writer of The Lost and The Insider .
The brilliant third novel in the Stone and Oliver series by award-winning author, Mari Hannah, writer of The Lost and The Insider.
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The brilliant third novel in the Stone and Oliver series by award-winning author, Mari Hannah, writer of The Lost and The Insider .
The brilliant third novel in the Stone and Oliver series by award-winning author, Mari Hannah, writer of The Lost and The Insider.
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'Brand new series. Same top-notch writing.' Eva Dolan
When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives at the crime scene, she gets more than she bargained for. She IDs the victim as Herald court reporter, thirty-two-year old Chris Adams she's known since they were kids. With no eyewitnesses, the MIT are stumped. They discover that when Adams went out, never to return, he was working on a scoop that would make his name. But what was the story he was investigating? And who was trying to cover it up?As detectives battle to solve the case, they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head. The expose has put more than Adams' life in danger. And it's not over yet.Critic Reviews
“Mari Hannah is a class act when it comes to writing crime and The Scandal is no exception. Pitch perfect police procedural.-- Living Magazine”
Mari Hannah is a class act when it comes to writing crime and The Scandal is no exception. Pitch perfect police procedural. Living Magazine
Another top-notch thriller that's gripping, right to the thrilling end. Peterborough Evening Telegraph
About the Author
Mari Hannah is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author/screenwriter. She writes across three crime series: DCI Kate Daniels (in development for TV with Sprout Pictures & Atlantic Nomad); Stone & Oliver and Ryan & O'Neil. Among her numerous awards is a Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library 2017. In 2019, Mari was the programming chair of Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. In 2020, she was the recipient of Capital Crime International Crime Writing Festival's Crime Book of the Year. She lives in rural Northumberland with her partner, an ex-murder detective.
'Brand new series. Same top-notch writing.' Eva Dolan When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives at the crime scene, she gets more than she bargained for. She IDs the victim as Herald court reporter, thirty-two-year old Chris Adams she's known since they were kids. With no eyewitnesses, the MIT are stumped. They discover that when Adams went out, never to return, he was working on a scoop that would make his name. But what was the story he was investigating? And who was trying to cover it up?As detectives battle to solve the case, they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head. The expose has put more than Adams' life in danger. And it's not over yet.
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