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The Knife in the Dark
(2025)(Book 23 in the West Yorkshire Crime Thriller series)
A novel by Lee Brook
Muhammad Niazi walked the same route home from prayers every Friday night for twenty years. At seventy-three, he was a pillar of his community—the shopkeeper who never turned away a hungry child, the grandfather who settled neighbourhood disputes with tea and wisdom.
On a rain-soaked October evening in Cross Flatts Park, someone decided his life didn't matter.
When DCI George Beaumont arrives at the scene, the evidence points to a hate crime: an elderly Muslim man, three precise stab wounds, and witnesses describing teenagers in clown masks harassing worshippers outside the local mosque. The arrest seems straightforward—until it's not.
As community tensions explode and political pressure mounts, Beaumont must navigate departmental politics, media scrutiny, and hunt a killer.
Because in the shadows of Cross Flatts Park, someone is watching. Someone who knows exactly how to disappear into the darkness between streetlights.
Someone who isn't finished.
Set within the suburbs of Leeds, West Yorkshire, this fast-paced British detective novel is a thrilling murder mystery that will keep you guessing who the killer is until the end.
The Knife in the Dark is the twenty-third book in the Detective George Beaumont thriller series.
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Detective Sergeant George Beaumont
Book 1: THE POSTMASTER’S WIFE
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: 2025 Christmas novel - out November!
Genre: Mystery
On a rain-soaked October evening in Cross Flatts Park, someone decided his life didn't matter.
When DCI George Beaumont arrives at the scene, the evidence points to a hate crime: an elderly Muslim man, three precise stab wounds, and witnesses describing teenagers in clown masks harassing worshippers outside the local mosque. The arrest seems straightforward—until it's not.
As community tensions explode and political pressure mounts, Beaumont must navigate departmental politics, media scrutiny, and hunt a killer.
Because in the shadows of Cross Flatts Park, someone is watching. Someone who knows exactly how to disappear into the darkness between streetlights.
Someone who isn't finished.
Set within the suburbs of Leeds, West Yorkshire, this fast-paced British detective novel is a thrilling murder mystery that will keep you guessing who the killer is until the end.
The Knife in the Dark is the twenty-third 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
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: 2025 Christmas novel - out November!
Genre: Mystery
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