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Hunter & Chase
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Salt Marsh Bones

2026

Welcome to the first book in a brand new rural crime series by bestseller Jack Gatland! "Suffolk's marshes keep their dead – until the tide turns..." One body, one bullet, and a family that's run the Suffolk coast for generations—now its patriarch lies face-down on the salt marshes at dawn, laid out beneath a wrong tide. Whoever killed Michael Sullivan wanted the town to know. When freshly-promoted DCI Chloe Hunter pulls into Halewick station for her first day back in the town she left behind as a teenager, she finds a CID gutted by a corruption clean-out, a team half-new and half-suspicious, and the biggest criminal name in East Suffolk dead on her patch before she has unpacked her bags. She came home to prove herself. Instead, the past has come for her first... including the reappearance of her father. DCI Donovan Chase vanished fifteen years ago without explanation, leaving a sixteen-year-old Chloe and a mother who never recovered. Now he's been reinstated as her subordinate—demoted to DI, watchful, and closer to the Sullivans than any copper in Suffolk. He claims he left to protect her. She doesn't believe a word of it. As the Sullivans close ranks behind their smiling heir, every question leads back to the old smuggling routes that still run across the marshes. And somewhere in Chloe's own station, something is being kept from her. An outsider in the very town she grew up in, Chloe has to work out who she can trust, and what her father really knew... before the Sullivans decide she's the next problem to bury... The first book in a new series of procedural crime thrillers featuring DCI Chloe Hunter and DI Donovan Chase, and spinning out of the critically acclaimed Declan Walsh series of books

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Jack Gatland
Jack Gatland
Author · 50 books

Jack Gatland is the pen name of #1 New York Times Bestselling Writer Tony Lee, who has been writing in all medias for over thirty years including comics, graphic novels, middle grade books, audio drama, TV and film for DC, Marvel, BBC, ITV, Random House, Penguin USA, Hachette and a ton of other publishers and broadcasters on licenses such as Doctor Who, Spider Man, X-Men, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctors, Wallace and Gromit and Shrek. As Tony, he’s toured the country talking to reluctant readers with his ‘Change The Channel’ school tours. He’s currently a member of the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain, the Society of Authors, The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers and the Crime Writer’s Association. As Jack, he’s writing a new series of Crime Thrillers starring Detective Inspector Declan Walsh, recently seconded to the City of London Police department known as the Last Chance Saloon. The first twelve of these, LETTER FROM THE DEAD, MURDER OF ANGELS, HUNTER HUNTED, WHISPER FOR THE REAPER, TO HUNT A MAGPIE, A RITUAL FOR THE DYING, KILLING THE MUSIC, A DINNER TO DIE FOR, BEHIND THE WIRE, HEAVY IS THE CROWN, STALKING THE RIPPER and A QUIVER OF SORROWS are available now, with book thirteen, MURDER BY MISTLETOE released in December 2022 – with further adventures continuing throughout 2023. In addition to that, the first book in a new series of Adventure Mysteries starring Robin-Hood style con-man forger-turned treasure hunter Damian Lucas, THE LIONHEART CURSE was released in January 2022, and he has both a new series of crime procedurals, spinning out of the DI Walsh series and featuring ‘Cop for Criminals’ Ellie Reckless including PAINT THE DEAD and STEAL THE GOLD, and a new spy series, spinning out of the DI Walsh series and featuring burned MI5 agent Tom Marlowe including SLEEPING SOLDIERS and TARGET LOCKED. He can be found at www.tonylee.co.uk and www.jackgatland.com.

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