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★★★★★ "A fast-paced and gripping book... you just don't want to put it down for a second." — Reader review
The explosive first book in the DS Tomek Bowen Essex Crime Thriller series, from bestselling crime author Jack Probyn.
His brother's killer was never found. His next case might change that.
Thirty years ago, two men killed Tomek Bowen's brother. One was jailed. The other vanished — and the wound never fully closed.
Now a Detective Sergeant in Essex Police, Tomek is called to a body in an allotment. Half-naked, mutilated. The victim was no innocent man — a recently released predator, and someone decided the courts had been too generous. When a second body appears, killed the same way, Tomek knows he's hunting a vigilante who has made themselves judge, jury and executioner.
But the deeper he pulls at his victims' dark pasts, the more something stirs. Buried memories. Forgotten details. Fragments from thirty years ago that are beginning to point, with terrible clarity, towards the killer who was never caught.
Can he bring a vigilante to justice — before the truth about his own past destroys everything he thought he knew?
Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, JD Kirk and Mark Billingham, Death's Justice is a gripping, twist-packed British crime thriller you won't be able to put down.
Tap the buy button — your next obsession starts here.
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THE SETTING
Essex Noir. Southend-on-Sea hides its darkness well. Beneath the cheerful seafront and the world's longest pier, the flat marshlands and quiet backroads hold a long memory — for old crimes, buried secrets, and the people who never quite escaped either.
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MEET THE DETECTIVE
DS Tomek Bowen is not the detective you'd expect. Polish-born, Essex-raised, and quietly carrying thirty years of grief he keeps locked somewhere his colleagues can't see. Sharp, relentless, and sometimes reckless — a man who works cases with the kind of intensity that only comes from knowing exactly what it feels like to be on the wrong side of an unsolved crime.
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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING
"What a great start to a new series featuring DS Tomek Bowen. This is a fast-paced and gripping book that has you totally captured. You just don't want to put it down for a second. I found myself so totally engrossed and oblivious to what was going on around me." ''' June
"With great characterisation, taut storytelling, and a firecracker of an ending, this may be the first I have read of Jack Probyn's books but it definitely won't be the last. Highly recommend!" — Amazon Reviewer
Read now to see what lies in store for your new favourite detective.
Genre: Mystery
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