The Dockland Killer
(2026)(The third book in the Carroll and Delaney Mystery series)
A novel by Jackie Sharp
London, 1947. The war is over, but the peace is proving just as dangerous.
As demobbed men return to a city still scarred by bombs, a new kind of criminal has moved into the wreckage. Sophisticated, patient, and always one step ahead of the Met, someone is running an operation that makes notorious London gangs look like amateurs, and stealing food that’s needed to feed a country still existing on rationing. And the violence is escalating.
When the body of a young docker is found arranged on the floor of an empty warehouse the investigation leads into the darkest corners of post-war London.
DCI Delaney is grappling with a new team and a mountain of bureaucracy. Frustrated with the lack of progress, and worried that the department may have sprung a leak, he turns to his trusted allies Maggie Carroll and Sergeant Billy Hunter.
As the bodies mount and the investigation closes in, Delaney begins to understand that he is not just hunting an organisation that grew out of London's criminal underworld. He is hunting something far more calculated — and far more ruthless — than anything post-war London has seen before. And he will need his whole team to work together to crack the case.
The Docklands Killer is the third novel in the Carroll and Delaney series, set in the atmospheric world of 1940s post war London where rationing bites, loyalties fracture, and the line between justice and survival has never been thinner.
Genre: Historical Mystery
As demobbed men return to a city still scarred by bombs, a new kind of criminal has moved into the wreckage. Sophisticated, patient, and always one step ahead of the Met, someone is running an operation that makes notorious London gangs look like amateurs, and stealing food that’s needed to feed a country still existing on rationing. And the violence is escalating.
When the body of a young docker is found arranged on the floor of an empty warehouse the investigation leads into the darkest corners of post-war London.
DCI Delaney is grappling with a new team and a mountain of bureaucracy. Frustrated with the lack of progress, and worried that the department may have sprung a leak, he turns to his trusted allies Maggie Carroll and Sergeant Billy Hunter.
As the bodies mount and the investigation closes in, Delaney begins to understand that he is not just hunting an organisation that grew out of London's criminal underworld. He is hunting something far more calculated — and far more ruthless — than anything post-war London has seen before. And he will need his whole team to work together to crack the case.
The Docklands Killer is the third novel in the Carroll and Delaney series, set in the atmospheric world of 1940s post war London where rationing bites, loyalties fracture, and the line between justice and survival has never been thinner.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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