Hard Time

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Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is having a hard time. Struggling with the aftermath of a vicious attack, she can scarcely trust her own judgment. Her lover is moving on, the guv is losing patience, and her new partner has the empathy of a house brick. Then another police officer dies and a ransom note arrives. And hard doesn't begin to cover it. The fourth gritty police procedural in the acclaimed series which began with Working Girls. ""Birmingham Sergeant Bev Morris juggles a complicated personal life, the murder of a police officer, and a mysterious ransom note in the fourth in the series.""-Library Journal ""Bev Morriss, the outwardly tough-as-nails British police detective who's wracked by inner turmoil, returns in another hard-eged thriller.... As usual, Carter writes with a bluntness that perfectly suits the material, and Morriss, who is still trying to come to terms with an incident that nearly destroyed her, is a multilayered, completely sympathetic, and engaging protagonist - not unlike Maureen O'Donnell in Denise Mina's Garnethill trilogy.""-Booklist.