Final Straw (ePub)

It is 2001 and Detective Inspector Charlie Moon is back with a new case!A prisoner found hanging in his cell after serving over twenty years of a life sentence draws Moon into the investigationof a murder which took place in the 1970s - a student named Sharon Baxter who was stabbed to death and her bodydumped at the side of a canal.At first nothing seems to make sense and the plot thickens with the discovery that all thefiles on the case have mysteriously gone missing leading Moon to suspect a police cover-up and implications going farbeyond a simple miscarriage of justice.Assisted once again by his journalist friend, Jo Lyon, Moon sets about following a trail of clues which soon reveal thechilling truth about how an innocent man came to be convicted of a crime he did not commit.Dark secrets from thepast are uncovered as Moon and Jopiece together what turns out to be a harrowing tale of corruption and depravitystretching back many years.It is not long, however, before Moon is drawn into conflict with his bosses and he is forcedto choose between yielding to their wishes to drop the case or putting his career on the line.Moon realises time is not onhis side but will he discover who killed Sharon and why before it is too late? There is, however, one final twist to the story -a twist nobody expects not even Charlie Moon!