STORM ON THE LEVELS

MEET DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN IN THIS BESTSELLING SERIES FROM A FORMER POLICE OFFICER. 

Six old friends. A weekend in a country hotel. A ruthless killer among them. 

Detective Kate and her husband Hayden are on their way home from a romantic mini-break when a ferocious storm blows in and their car breaks down. Stranded on a remote lane in the blizzard, they seek shelter in a nearby country hotel. 

They aren’t the only guests. Six old university friends are meeting up for a reunion weekend. 

One of them hides a terrible secret. 

The next morning, a body is found in the hotel lake. A tragic accident it would appear. 

The following day, a second guest is found drowned in the bathtub. 

Two drownings in two days is no coincidence. 

Snowed in, with no signal and the phone lines down, Detective Kate must unmask the killer among them before more guests meet a grisly end. 

Perfect for fans of Rachel Abbott, Joy Ellis, Mel Sherratt, Angela Marsons and Helen H. Durrant. 

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Loved it from start to finish . . . Loads of twist and turns.’ Graeme R. 

THE DETECTIVES 
Detective Sergeant Kate Lewis is a feisty detective with a dynamic approach to her job. She is tenacious, but also prone to being headstrong. This often lands her in tight spots, earning her the nicknames ‘Maverick’ or ‘Go-It-Alone’ Kate, and it puts her on a collision course with the more bureaucratic hierarchy of the force. 

In contrast to Kate, her detective constable husband and partner, Hayden, is an overweight, untidy, ex-public schoolboy with a pompous, laidback attitude and an old-fashioned view of life, which drives Kate to distraction. But he is also highly intelligent with a reasoned approach to everything, which, can sometimes act as a brake on his partner’s impulsive behaviour. 

THE SETTING 
A patchwork of fields, peat moor and marshland, dotted with picturesque villages and criss-crossed by man-made irrigation ditches or rhynes, the Somerset Levels covers an area of about 160,000 acres between the Mendips and Quantock Hills. Sparsely populated and prone to flooding with a brooding stillness, which creeps into the very soul; a secret place bound to fire the imagination of any self-respecting crime novelist, whose thoughts will invariably turn to . . . murder. 

THE AUTHOR 
David Hodges is a former police superintendent, with thirty years’ service. He has received critical media acclaim, is the author of seventeen published crime novels, with his Somerset Levels Murder series attracting keen interest in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, as well as in the UK. 

DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN MYSTERY SERIES 
Book 1: MURDER ON THE LEVELS 
Book 2: REVENGE ON THE LEVELS 
Book 3: FEAR ON THE LEVELS 
Book 4: KILLER ON THE LEVELS 
Book 5: SECRETS ON THE LEVELS 
Book 6: DEATH ON THE LEVELS 
Book 7: POISON ON THE LEVELS 
Book 8: WITCH FIRE ON THE LEVELS 
Book 9: STALKER ON THE LEVELS 
Book 10: VENOM ON THE LEVELS 
Book 11: WATCHER ON THE LEVELS 
Book 12: STORM ON THE LEVELS