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ENTER THE WORLD OF DCI ROOKE
A THRILLING NEW NORTHERN-NOIR CRIME SERIES
Discover DCI Alanna Rooke — a detective drawn to crimes where the past never stays buried.
Before the first novel begins, there was another case. One that never made the files.
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DCI ALANNA ROOKE
Detective Chief Inspector Alanna Rooke has built a reputation for the cases others would rather leave buried.
Methodical, relentless, and unwilling to settle for the convenient explanation, she has a habit of uncovering the truths powerful people would prefer stayed hidden.
From Newcastle's streets to the wild Northumberland coast — when an investigation turns complicated, political, or quietly dangerous, Rooke is the officer sent to see it through.
T.G HOFMAN
T.G. Hofman is a Presiding Justice in the criminal courts of England and Wales — and it's that world, the cases that never quite make it to trial, that inspired the DCI Rooke series.
Away from the bench he's a theatre director and playwright; his plays Shakespeare's Fool and A Boy Called Anne have toured the UK and internationally to five-star reviews.
He lives on the Northumberland coast with his family. Book two, Rooke's Shadow, is on the way.