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He never turned around.
Whoever came for Danny Frost, on his own boat, in his own cabin, on a quiet mooring outside Leeds, got close enough to swing before he ever saw it coming—one blow. No struggle. No warning in his own eyes.
The cabin door is bolted and locked from the inside. For DCI George Beaumont, that's the whole case in one impossible line: a man murdered in a room nobody could have left. And the harder George looks at Danny Frost, the less there is to find. No family. No history. No name that holds up past six years ago. Somebody built him a life good enough to vanish into. Somebody has just taken it apart.
Forty boats' worth of neighbours saw nothing that night. And as George pulls at the marina's careful silence, he finds old grudges, old money, and older secrets, all of them circling a dead man nobody really knew—and every thread leading back to the same narrow stretch of water. Because Woodlesford protects its own—it always has. George is about to find out exactly how far that runs, and how long it's been going on.
Some doors don't need a lock to stay shut.
Set within the suburbs of Leeds, West Yorkshire, this fast-paced British detective novel is a crime thriller that will keep you guessing until the end.
The Dark Water is the twenty-seventh book in the Detective George Beaumont thriller series.
Subscribe to my newsletter for free access to novella 0: The Beast of Belle Isle: A George Beaumont Prequel
https://leebrookauthor.aweb.page/p/cfff8220-7312-4e37-b61a-b1c6c2d15fc2
Detective Sergeant George Beaumont
Book 1: THE POSTMASTER’S WIFE
Book 2: Coming December 2026
Detective Inspector Isabella Wood
Book 1: MURDER AT BRANDLING HOUSE
Book 2: Coming August 2026
West Yorkshire Crime Thrillers
Book 1: THE MISS MURDERER
Book 2: THE BONE SAW RIPPER
Book 3: THE BLONDE DELILAH
Book 4: THE CROSS FLATTS SNATCHER
Book 5: THE MIDDLETON WOODS STALKER
Book 6: THE NAUGHTY LIST - a completely new version of The Naughty List, entirely re-written with a new plot!
Book 7: THE FOOTBALLER AND THE WIFE
Book 8: THE NEW FOREST VILLAGE BOOK CLUB
Novella 1: MISSING: MICHELLE CROMACK
Book 9: THE KILLER IN THE FAMILY
Book 10: THE STOURTON STONE CIRCLE
Novella 2: A HALLOWEEN TO REMEMBER: THE LEEDS VAMPIRE
Novella 3: ECHOES OF THE RIPPER: THE LONG SHADOW
Book 11: THE WEST YORKSHIRE RIPPER
Book 12: THE SHADOWS OF YULETIDE
Book 13: THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST
Book 14: THE ECHOES OF SILENCE
Book 15: BENEATH THE SURFACE
Book 16: THE STALKER’S TWISTED GAME
Book 17: THE VIGILANTE’S VERDICT
Book 18: A HARVEST OF SORROW
Book 19: THE ANGEL OF DEATH
Book 20: THE TWELVE DEATHS OF CHRISTMAS
Book 21: THE KIRKSTALL ABBEY MURDERS
Book 22: THE TINGLEY RESERVOIR MURDERS
Book 23: THE KNIFE IN THE DARK
Book 24: THE SNOW GLOBE MURDERS
Book 25: THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER
Book 26: FOREVER SEVEN
Book 27: THE DARK WATER
Book 28: Coming October 2026
Genre: Mystery
Whoever came for Danny Frost, on his own boat, in his own cabin, on a quiet mooring outside Leeds, got close enough to swing before he ever saw it coming—one blow. No struggle. No warning in his own eyes.
The cabin door is bolted and locked from the inside. For DCI George Beaumont, that's the whole case in one impossible line: a man murdered in a room nobody could have left. And the harder George looks at Danny Frost, the less there is to find. No family. No history. No name that holds up past six years ago. Somebody built him a life good enough to vanish into. Somebody has just taken it apart.
Forty boats' worth of neighbours saw nothing that night. And as George pulls at the marina's careful silence, he finds old grudges, old money, and older secrets, all of them circling a dead man nobody really knew—and every thread leading back to the same narrow stretch of water. Because Woodlesford protects its own—it always has. George is about to find out exactly how far that runs, and how long it's been going on.
Some doors don't need a lock to stay shut.
Set within the suburbs of Leeds, West Yorkshire, this fast-paced British detective novel is a crime thriller that will keep you guessing until the end.
The Dark Water is the twenty-seventh book in the Detective George Beaumont thriller series.
Subscribe to my newsletter for free access to novella 0: The Beast of Belle Isle: A George Beaumont Prequel
https://leebrookauthor.aweb.page/p/cfff8220-7312-4e37-b61a-b1c6c2d15fc2
Detective Sergeant George Beaumont
Book 1: THE POSTMASTER’S WIFE
Book 2: Coming December 2026
Detective Inspector Isabella Wood
Book 1: MURDER AT BRANDLING HOUSE
Book 2: Coming August 2026
West Yorkshire Crime Thrillers
Book 1: THE MISS MURDERER
Book 2: THE BONE SAW RIPPER
Book 3: THE BLONDE DELILAH
Book 4: THE CROSS FLATTS SNATCHER
Book 5: THE MIDDLETON WOODS STALKER
Book 6: THE NAUGHTY LIST - a completely new version of The Naughty List, entirely re-written with a new plot!
Book 7: THE FOOTBALLER AND THE WIFE
Book 8: THE NEW FOREST VILLAGE BOOK CLUB
Novella 1: MISSING: MICHELLE CROMACK
Book 9: THE KILLER IN THE FAMILY
Book 10: THE STOURTON STONE CIRCLE
Novella 2: A HALLOWEEN TO REMEMBER: THE LEEDS VAMPIRE
Novella 3: ECHOES OF THE RIPPER: THE LONG SHADOW
Book 11: THE WEST YORKSHIRE RIPPER
Book 12: THE SHADOWS OF YULETIDE
Book 13: THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST
Book 14: THE ECHOES OF SILENCE
Book 15: BENEATH THE SURFACE
Book 16: THE STALKER’S TWISTED GAME
Book 17: THE VIGILANTE’S VERDICT
Book 18: A HARVEST OF SORROW
Book 19: THE ANGEL OF DEATH
Book 20: THE TWELVE DEATHS OF CHRISTMAS
Book 21: THE KIRKSTALL ABBEY MURDERS
Book 22: THE TINGLEY RESERVOIR MURDERS
Book 23: THE KNIFE IN THE DARK
Book 24: THE SNOW GLOBE MURDERS
Book 25: THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER
Book 26: FOREVER SEVEN
Book 27: THE DARK WATER
Book 28: Coming October 2026
Genre: Mystery
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