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Dive into London’s most dangerous crime scene — the River Thames. Here we have DIVE by Jon Barton.

A police diver whose obsession with the job has made his home life implode.
A high-flying detective recently thrown out of the CID.
A case that could get them both killed.

Police diver David Cade lives by a simple rule: pull out the bodies and move on. Naomi can’t abide that. Her whole career, she’s wanted to fight the good fight. But circumstances have sent Naomi to the Marine Police.

Then they discover a dead girl, bloated and broken on the surface of the Thames. And then another.

Each time David pulls a new body out of the water, he fears it’s his estranged fifteen-year-old daughter Lex. She’s gone missing after they had a fierce argument and hasn’t been in touch since.

The dead girls all have the same nightclub stamp on the backs of their hands — the same one David’s daughter had the day she disappeared.

A briefcase is discovered in the same stretch of water, and suddenly the higher-ups at CID, including Naomi’s rival, Detective Chief Inspector Shannon Baines, start showing an interest.

Clearly something big is happening.

David and Naomi must work together if they’re going to solve the dead girls’ murders and find Lex. Then they uncover something that will threaten to blow the case apart — if it doesn’t get them killed first . . .

MEET THE DETECTIVES
David Cade is an experienced frogman, satisfied to lose himself in diving in the river. But his obsession with the job has caused his home life to implode. He wants to be part of his daughter’s life, if only he could figure out how.

Naomi Harding is held accountable after three of her colleagues are killed during a raid she was leading. Her punishment is to be side-lined to the Marine Policing Unit, or ‘frogmen’, whose main aim is to dredge up dead bodies from the Thames and pass them on to the ‘real’ police.

JON BARTON
Jon Barton is a London-based screenwriter with ten years’ experience as a dramatist, writing continuing drama for the BBC, and new work for young people. His theatre work has been produced onstage at major London venues, including The Old Vic and The Almeida, with screen work under option at Northern Ireland Screen and Netflix UK. An experienced creative writing tutor and freelance editor, Jon works as a copywriter, edits for The Literary Consultancy, and teaches for City Academy and Iconic Steps. When he’s not writing crime fiction, he’s running, walking, and bingeing podcasts.
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MY REVIEW totally new author to me, so new energies, and imagination to pick up from them. See if they gel. I see they are a screenwriter so I have high hopes. The story telling is from a few different character perspectives which is unusual, most just write from one,or classic observational style. Kinda slow to grab you at first, but it’s a first book so needs to be heavy on description of characters. Perhaps now they are fully formed, these characters could live on in a new series, as the book really comes alive once they work together!! Standalone book, but now they are established I think they could go far as a duo. I’d definitely be up for reading more. May of been a slow start but it ended high octane and the pace quickens.