A warehouse manager is dead.
And DI Joe Hogarth is about to discover that he was only a pawn.
The trail leads into Essex’s minimart network — a criminal empire hiding in plain sight, dealing in drugs, stolen goods, money and people.
At the centre of it is Alex Galvan, a man who believes he was cheated out of his share.
Now he's taking back what he believes is his.
Hogarth starts pulling at the thread.
He finds murder, intimidation and a criminal network that has survived by making problems disappear.
Then he discovers who is behind the killing.
The problem?
He can't prove it.
Because the man at the centre of it all has made sure the evidence stops short of him.
Now Hogarth has to find a way to bring him down before more people die.
THE DEAD MAN — a DI Joe Hogarth crime thriller of murder, gangland power and revenge, set in Southend and Essex.
Genre: Mystery
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