The Secret of Wild Boar Woods (DS Dave Slater #6)

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Detective Sergeant Dave Slater is fed up. His girlfriend is off travelling the world, his trusty partner Norman could be retiring, and to top it all off, his boss has assigned him a rookie to babysit. He finds himself wondering if being a police officer is for him anymore.

And then he picks up the phone to the case that no police officer ever wants to deal with– a missing eight-year-old girl. When little Chrissy’s body is found curled-up in nearby woodlands, DS Slater and the rest of the team are plunged into an investigation that sees them delve back into history in a bid to solve the mystery of Wild Boar Woods.

Can they find Chrissy’s killer? And could they uncover an even larger crime in the process? Slater only knows one thing – it’s up to him to find the truth.

Not quite police procedural, and not quite cozy mystery, the DS Dave Slater Mystery Series is a series that has a sense of humour and doesn’t take itself too seriously.