Gallows Drop (Kate Daniels, 6) - Softcover

Mari Hannah has developed her characters to a fine degree, involving the reader in their lives and relationships, which adds much to the clever plotline * Choice Magazine * Hannah is a clever, gifted writer, treading a fine line between Kate's complex and compelling private life and unravelling our intrepid detective's multi-layered murder mysteries, all packed with intrigue, rollercoaster emotions, unpredictable plotlines and down-to-earth realism * Lancashire Evening Post * Let's cut to the chase. This is as good as a modern British crime thriller gets * Peterborough Telegraph * [A] terrific page-turner that's dark and twisting * Woman and Home * DCI Kate Daniels: a Northerner to join the roster of top literary detectives * The Times * Brutal and engaging. Mari Hannah writes with a sharp eye and a dark heart -- Peter James They're just great reads -- Stephen Fry on the Kate Daniels series Nobody understands the many faces of cops better than Mari Hannah -- Val McDermid

Gallows Drop is Maria Hannah's sixth gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels. At dawn on a lonely stretch of road, a body is found hanging from an ancient gallows the morning after a country show. Hours earlier, DCI Kate Daniels had seen the victim alive. With her leave period imminent, she's forced to step aside when DCI James Atkins is called in to investigate. There's bad blood between them. When Kate discovers that Atkins' daughter was an eyewitness to a fight involving the victim, the two detectives lock horns and he's bumped off the case. It's the trigger for a vicious attack on Kate, exposing a secret she's kept hidden for years and unearthing an even darker one. Shaken but undeterred, Kate sets out to solve a case that has shocked a close-knit village community. As suspects emerge, she uncovers a curious historical connection with a hangman, a culture of systematic bullying, a web of deceit and a deep-seated psychosis, any one of which could be motive for murder.