Two of a Kind

Four simple words ‘Not Guilty, Your Honour.’ They’d gotten away with murder.

With the stone cast into the once tranquil waters, the ripple effect tore them asunder. Bess, Ray’s nanny and parent’s housekeeper, withdraws to her childhood home in Matlock before he disappears.

Sixteen years after the event took place. Ray returns to where it all began. Cliff House in Amber Valley, and following in his wake, reprisals.

Meanwhile, Sean Murphy—Derbyshire’s Don—is under house arrest awaiting trial. As he hatches plans to evade justice, DCI Joe Quinn is coming to terms with life after closing one of the most harrowing cases of his long career. Little does he know that a tidal wave of resentment is brewing and unleashed, he’ll be embroiled in the eye of a storm, leaving him pulling his hair out as a puppeteer in plain sight jerks his strings.

As each character's story evolves, the thread linking them spans across eight decades. However, each remain unaware of where or when everyone’s paths had crossed. Or that some are destined to overlap again with the discovery of John Doe.

Two of a Kind, is an enthralling account set in Derbyshire’s Amber Valley about the lives of Bess, Ray, Murphy, Quinn, and John Doe. In this debut page-turner novel, death, abduction, home invasions, secrets and lies, deception, and payback are the main courses on a dish de jour menu.

What or who’s the common denominator connecting the five? And where does John Doe fit into the puzzle?