Book Spotlight: Murders Along the Coast by Brian Gee

Simon Crofts is a Crime Scene Manager working at major incidents and overseeing the Scenes of Crime Officers under his command.

Their job is to deal with all types of crime from burglary to murder, in the seaside towns on the south coast.

A quiet festive period is interrupted by a call to the suspicious death of a baby. The traumatic scene and the subsequent post-mortem are all in a day’s work for the SOCO’s.

As their examination ends, they are then called to another scene, this time just as tragic.

A successful businessman and his wife have been shot dead in their own home.

There are no clues to who has carried out the shooting, or why.

The story follows the crime scene officers as they painstakingly carry out the thorough examinations of the house looking for that one tiny piece of evidence that will lead them to the suspect.

In this case it has been made more complicated, as it appears that the offender has been careful, and doesn’t appear to have left any clues behind.

Crofts and his team have been faced with this type of challenge before and are confident that they will solve this case.

Will they succeed, or will the clever assassin get away with murder?

GENRE: Thriller

LINKS: Amazon | Goodreads | StoryGraph

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: My name is Brian Gee.

I have a wealth of knowledge about the forensic and crime scene side of crime investigation.

I worked as a Scenes of Crime Officer and Crime Scene Manager in various towns on the South Coast, for over twenty-five years.

During this time, I attended countless different scenes, including those of major crimes and worked on many murder investigations.

On retirement, I decided to start writing crime novels, and unusually I chose to write them from the view of the Scenes of Crime Officers, rather than the detectives. My latest novel is called Murders along the Coast.

The book follows Simon Crofts and his forensic team over a few days as they investigate two very different suspicious deaths.

I currently live on the Sussex Coast, together with my wife and family.

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