Death in Dark Waters - Patricia Hall

This novel is the 9th in a series set in the Yorkshire town of Bradfield, and it centres on the dilemma of how to deal with the drugs issue. A teenager falls to his death from a tower block on the troubled Wuthering Heights council estate. Meanwhile another youngster from a more privileged background is in hospital after taking Ecstasy then walking out under a car on his way out of a nightclub. There are sharp differences in reactions towards the two incidents. Young black kid Derek was known as a junkie though his mum and friends say he was clean when he died. Schoolboy Jeremy is the son of a leading local businessman. The police are soon under pressure ...  Read the complete review

A teenage boy from a good home takes Ecstasy at a local club and is then hit by a car. Although he recovers, the police start to look carefully at the club, suspecting, as do many locals, that it is really a cover for a drug racket. His father insists that DCI Michael Thackeray finds out exactly who supplied the Ecstasy. At the same time, an ex-drug user falls to his death from a block of flats - apparently having committed suicide. His friends and family claim he was drug-free and had no need to commit suicide, and Thackeray's girlfriend, reporter Laura Ackroyd, begins to uncover something much more sinister that may be linked to the drug racket. Can Thackeray and ...  Read the complete review