A fatal car accident that was anything but accidental has jarred loose a stash of methamphetamines and cash that’s become the center of a battle between the Sons of Freedom, Bakken County’s traditional drug sellers, and MS-13, the Salvadorian upstarts who are muscling in on their territory.

Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of a man who promises her the earth. Hours after learning that Greg, her married lover who was about to divorce his wife and rescue her from her controlling husband, isn’t really about to divorce his wife and isn’t even named Greg, hairdresser Lorna Belling’s unexpectedly violent final confrontation with the faithless adulterer leaves her dead and her killer working feverishly to erase all traces of his involvement with her. The motivation for this possible crime raises many complications for Grace and his team, with the constant shifting of the sands.With all of these issues at hand, and loads of staff not being around (Glen Branson his trusty sidekick being one of them) he has a lot on his plate. I can't reveal any of the story as it would spoil previous books but just know that it is excellent as always and if this a genre you enjoy please read from the beginning! In the penultimate chapter, there is an incident which may be nothing, or it may presage something very sinister indeed. Grace and his new wife Cleo have a fledgling relationship, with Grace conscious that his work does not come between them both.

I'm struggling to provide more detail without spoiling things for readers who haven't read the previous books in the series so I'll move on. Another suspect is a respected member of the community who was in an extra-marital relationship with her.Wow it’s been a while since I read a Roy Grace book and here we are again still my favourite detective series on and off screen. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.