A Half Remembered Life by J J Salkeld, Amazon Kindle £1.99

THE ninth book in J J Salkeld's Lakeland Murders series sees detective Andy Hall drawn on to treacherous ground.

Could the apparently accidental death of an environmental activist at St. Bees years before actually be a cunningly conceived murder, involving both undercover police officers and a subsequent cover-up?

And could Hall's chief suspect in the case really be a charming, over-achieving sociopath?

Aided an abetted by the suspended DS Ian Mann, Hall needs to be absolutely sure that he's right, because his wife and best friend's careers, and maybe even his family's safety, are all at stake.

As always, the former DCS in Cumbria Constabulary has endless ideas and theories, but as to hard evidence? Well, that's quite a different matter....

J J Salkeld is the pen name of Richard Simpson, and his Cumbria-set detective fiction has featured heavily in the relevant Amazon sales charts internationally since his first novel in his acclaimed Lakeland Murders series, Separated at Death, was published in early 2013.