Rough Justice by Biba Pearce (Shrap Nelson #1)
A HOMELESS VETERAN, MURDERED.
When ex-military investigator ‘Shrap’ Nelson finds her fellow homeless veteran burned to death under a railway bridge, she knows there’s more to his murder than meets the eye.
Doug was the friend who saved her life two years ago, and now she owes it to him to uncover the truth.
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ON THE GRITTY STREETS OF LONDON
Armed only with her sharp intellect and military training, Shrap must rely on her wits and a crew of outcasts to piece together the puzzle. Battling crippling PTSD, she pushes herself out of her comfort zone and into a world she thought she’d left behind.
WHERE A POWERFUL ENEMY LURKS IN THE SHADOWS
As Shrap digs deeper, she uncovers a trail leading to a formidable figure in the London underworld. This ruthless adversary will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. Hunted by a dangerous enemy, Shrap must stay one step ahead to avenge her friend and save herself from becoming the next victim. Solving this case could be Shrap’s redemption, but failure will destroy her. In a world where crime never sleeps, justice comes at a steep price.
My Review
What a great new series this promises to be! ‘Shrap’ Nelson is ex-military, but following a stint in Afghanistan, where her friends died in a mortar attack and she was beaten, tortured and left to die, she is suffering from crippling PTSD. No longer able to cope, she lives on the streets.
But when her friend Doug, also ex-military, is killed in a brutal and horrific manner, she cannot deny her past. In the meantime, the police have discovered the body of a murdered sex worker and pinned the crime on poor Doug, saying he then killed himself, by setting himself on fire. Shrap knows it’s not true and she is determined to get justice for Doug.
During her ‘investigations’, she meets DC Trevelyan who also has doubts about Doug’s guilt. What motive could he possibly have had for killing the girl? Trevelyan can’t accept Shrap’s help officially, but she is really good at obtaining information, albeit her methods are unorthodox and often not quite legal. And that’s putting it mildly. She regularly gets beaten up in the process, but her military training means she gives as good she gets.
Shrap and Trevelyan are soon drawn into the seedy side of strip clubs, drugs, murder and the London underworld. And these people mean business.
This was a very exciting read and I’m really looking forward to meeting Shrap and Trevelyan again in Book 2 An Unlikely Saviour.
Many thanks to the author for inviting me to be on the blog tour.
About the Author
Biba Pearce is a British crime writer and author of the DCI Rob Miller series. Biba grew up in post-apartheid Southern Africa. As a child, she lived on the wild eastern coast and explored the sub-tropical forests and surfed in shark-infested waters. Now a full-time writer with more than twenty-five novels under her belt, Biba lives in leafy Surrey and when she isn’t writing, can be found walking through the countryside or kayaking on the river Thames.
