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A body reclaimed by water.
A landscape shaped by secrets.
And a case that refuses to stay buried.
When a man is found dead in the wetlands of rural Lancashire, DCI Jonathan Walker is drawn into a police investigation shaped as much by the land as the people who claim it. From the reedbeds of Martin Mere to the dense cover of Mere Sands Wood and the shifting floodplains of Brockholes, the terrain is treacherous, the community insular, and every answer seems to sink into mud before it can be examined.
At first, the truth appears straightforward.
Too straightforward.
As Walker and DC Shelly Briggs dig deeper, fractures begin to show — in the evidence, in the local history, and in the assumptions holding the case together. The wetlands don’t just conceal what’s been buried. They distort it.
And when another life is threatened, the investigation turns sharply inward — forcing Walker to confront how easily protection can become control, and how violence can disguise itself as necessity.
Some crimes aren’t committed in the open.
They’re grown. Maintained. And defended.
Moody, atmospheric, and psychologically sharp, The Wetlands is a dark British police procedural exploring obsession, isolation, buried trauma, and the danger of believing the land — and the truth — belongs to you.
Fans of Ian Rankin, Ann Cleeves, Matt Brolly, JD Kirk, Patricia Gibney, and LJ Ross will be hooked.
Step into the wetlands.
But tread carefully — not everything buried stays silent.
The Wetlands is the sixth novel in the DCI Walker crime thriller series and can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Mystery
A body reclaimed by water.
A landscape shaped by secrets.
And a case that refuses to stay buried.
When a man is found dead in the wetlands of rural Lancashire, DCI Jonathan Walker is drawn into a police investigation shaped as much by the land as the people who claim it. From the reedbeds of Martin Mere to the dense cover of Mere Sands Wood and the shifting floodplains of Brockholes, the terrain is treacherous, the community insular, and every answer seems to sink into mud before it can be examined.
At first, the truth appears straightforward.
Too straightforward.
As Walker and DC Shelly Briggs dig deeper, fractures begin to show — in the evidence, in the local history, and in the assumptions holding the case together. The wetlands don’t just conceal what’s been buried. They distort it.
And when another life is threatened, the investigation turns sharply inward — forcing Walker to confront how easily protection can become control, and how violence can disguise itself as necessity.
Some crimes aren’t committed in the open.
They’re grown. Maintained. And defended.
Moody, atmospheric, and psychologically sharp, The Wetlands is a dark British police procedural exploring obsession, isolation, buried trauma, and the danger of believing the land — and the truth — belongs to you.
Fans of Ian Rankin, Ann Cleeves, Matt Brolly, JD Kirk, Patricia Gibney, and LJ Ross will be hooked.
Step into the wetlands.
But tread carefully — not everything buried stays silent.
The Wetlands is the sixth novel in the DCI Walker crime thriller series and can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Mystery
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