WHEN DETECTIVE CONSTABLE SIMMONS’ FATHER ASKS HIM TO HELP A NEWLY BEREAVED WIDOW, THE YOUNG COP SENSES TROUBLE. HE TURNS TO DI HOGARTH FOR HELP. HOGARTH HAS NO REASON TO DECLINE, BUT HE’LL SOON WISH HE HAD – AS THEY BECOME SNARED IN A TRAP WHICH THEY MUST ESCAPE BEFORE THE WEEKEND IS OUT OR BE IMPLICATED IN THE GRAVEST OF CRIMES.

BUT WHEN A SECOND CORPSE APPEARS IN TOWN DI HOGARTH’S SITUATION GOES CRITICAL…

Social Media entrepreneur Grant Dawn goes missing late one Friday night. When his classic car spins out of control into the muddy waters of a cold marshland river, he’s almost certainly dead. His alcoholic wife is beside herself and their business is about to fail, leaving Dawn’s employees scrambling to save the firm he left behind. So far, so bad. But not all deaths are what they seem and Hogarth discovers a secret which could cause him to lose everything – perhaps even his life.

Just because one accident turns out to be less than fatal, it doesn’t stop others from dying.

 A liar. A lush. A rogue. A femme fatale with an eye for DI Hogarth…

 Just who was behind the plan to kill Grant Dawn?

As danger closes in, DCI Melford’s crisis deepens by the hour. With the clock ticking Hogarth is stretched to the limit. It’s only a matter of time before someone cracks under the strain. Hogarth must ensure it’s not him. But against these odds, nothing is certain.  

Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ruth Rendell, Helen Durrant, Joy Ellis and LJ Ross. If you love to read gripping detective thrillers with flawed characters and police procedurals with shocking twists and a noir flavour, then the DI Hogarth Secret Fear series is for you.

The Secret Fear series is perfect for fans of British crime thrillers, female detective novels, murder mysteries, British crime mysteries, police procedurals, heist thrillers and noir Thrillers..

The Setting:

Southend-on-Sea, Just over an hour from London. A tough and densely packed suburban town sandwiched between the sparkling Thames Estuary and a semi-rural hinterland of fields and marshes. A place where wealth and glamour sit cheek by jowl with addiction, poverty and crime. When he transferred to the Essex coast, ex-Met Detective Joe Hogarth might have imagined he was signing up for sun, sea and semi-retirement. But the merry hell of Southend might just have him beat. It’s a good thing this DI doesn’t know when to quit…

THE DI HOGARTH SECRET FEAR SERIES

THE SECRET FEAR

THE SECRET DAWN

THE SECRET SINS

THE DI HOGARTH DARKEST SERIES

THE DARKEST LIES

THE DARKEST GRAVE

THE DARKEST DEED

THE DARKEST TRUTH

ALSO BY SOLOMON CARTER

LONG TIME DYING 1-13

LUCK AND JUDGMENT

LONDON CALLING

THE FINAL TRICK

AND MUCH MORE…