The Gripping DS Jon Roth Debut
Everyone is determined to call Cassie Edwards a runaway, except her mother.
DS Jon Roth, the most unwanted cop on the Force, soon finds himself wading through a tangled conspiracy of lies and deceit, with powerful people willing to kill to keep Roth from finding out what really happened to Cassie Edwards.
From The Book…
“Some try hard to imagine the worst things in a cop’s life, the dead bodies, the trauma, the endless lies and hate… But it’s none of those things.
The single worst thing in a cop’s life is the humble door. Locked, unlocked, closed, open. The simple act of walking through a doorway could be the last thing you ever do on this Earth.”
The Gripping DS Jon Roth Debut
In Plain View
A missing girl. A cop they want gone. A case nobody wants solved.
Everyone is determined to call Cassie Edwards a runaway…
Every year, about 38,000 people are reported missing, including around 3,000 children aged 0 to 12 and around 19,000 young people aged 13 to 17.
Some 440 of these kids are never seen again.
Set in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, away from the glittering sunny beaches and idyllic stereotypes of the Emerald City, In Plain View peers into the underbelly of the city, the people, the society, its institutions, even its architecture, through the eyes of a Detective Sergeant Jon Roth.
Roth is a detective despised by other cops, a cop the on the most wanted list of “toe-cutters and headhunters” in the hated Professional Standards Command (once known as Internal Affairs), but as we see, Roth is hated more because of who he is than what he has done.
Read about the stories that inspired the novel (on Substack).