A hazardous hunt for the truth

WHEN it comes to a whiteknuckle action ride nobody does it better than UK bestseller Kernick.

He specialises in twisty crime riddles solved by maverick cops, so buckle up as a new series brings together tough guy DI Ray Mason of the Met’s HomicideCommand and Tina Boyd who left the Met under a cloud and became a PI. It begins when a cold case involving the disappearance of Brit tourist Kitty Sinn in Thailand in 1990 suddenly heats up when her boyfriend at the time Henry Forbes and his lawyer call Mason to a meeting with a deal on the table. In return for witness protection Henry will reveal how Kitty fell foul of predatorsandwasburied, notin Thailand but in a shallow grave inthegroundsofaprivateschool in Buckinghamshire. When a gang of masked men burst in with guns blazing, only Mason survives and he’s plunged into a hazardous hunt for the truth that sees him and Tina up against a major London crime family, girls being trafficked for a satanic cult, and an ice-cold killer called Mr Bone. Phew, I couldn’t put it down! Review by Alex Gordon. In which bestseller did DI Mason appear last year? Entries to Alex Gordon, Bone competition by January 19.