A Dark Place to Die

A dark, gritty police procedural - the first in the Detective Inspector Frank Keane series

Ed Chatterton is the prize-winning author of more than twenty children's novels (published under the name Martin Chatterton). A Dark Place to Die is his first crime novel and he is already hard at work on the second novel in the DI Frank Keane series.

On a freezing October morning, Detective Inspector Frank Keane is called to the scene of a crime on Liverpool's shoreline.The body of what looks like a man, brutally tortured and burned, has been tied to a pole on the beach. With very little evidence to go on, Keane and his partner, DS Emily Harris, rely on their gut feeling that this murder is gang-related and their investigation takes them, once again, into the murky underworld of organised crime. 
 
Over in Australia, ex-Liverpool Police detective Menno Koopman - Frank's former boss - is enjoying his retirement. He has no plans to ever return to England but when the body on the beach turns out to be his son, Stevie - whom he only ever met once as a baby - he knows he has to go back and seek justice for his horrific murder. But there's a fine line between justice and revenge...

Ed Chatterton

There is no denying [Chatterton’s] novel’s visceral power and the vivid picture it draws of one of Britain’s great cities.

The dark, gritty second novel in the Detective Inspector Frank Keane series. 
 
At first glance, the bloody crime scene in suburban Liverpool looks like a straightforward murder-suicide – the husband kills the wife and then himself. But what of their missing teenage son, Nicky? Is he their prime suspect or the third victim? 
 
With Nicky’s holiday job on a film being shot in the city bringing unwanted press attention, newly-promoted head of the Merseyside Major Incident Team DCI Frank Keane knows that time is running out to find the boy. 
 
But all too soon the case starts unravelling into one that will test Keane to the limit – and haunt him to his dying day.

Ed Chatterton

Praise for Down Among the Dead Men

There is no denying [Chatterton’s] novel’s visceral power and the vivid picture it draws of one of Britain’s great cities.

Books by Ed Chatterton

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