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Holding Back: An Eli Ross Detective Novel
Everyone has reasons.
Knowing them changes everything.
When a killer strikes, seemingly at random, Detective Sergeant Eli Ross is confronted with violence that offers no motive, no pattern, and no explanation.
A second case follows—unrelated, and far more disturbing—adding to the strain as Ross and his team realise they are dealing with more than one kind of killer, driven by very different needs.
Away from the investigation, Ross faces pressures he never expected. Caring for his mute twelve-year-old nephew, Ollie, he does his best—unaware how much he is misreading the silence.
As the search for motive intensifies, Ross is forced to confront the hidden reasons behind grief, rejection, and fear—both in the minds of killers and within his own family.
Holding Back is a dark, psychologically driven detective thriller about motive, misdirection, and when keeping up and slowing down must happen at once.
Winner, 2023 Global Book Awards
Knowing them changes everything.
When a killer strikes, seemingly at random, Detective Sergeant Eli Ross is confronted with violence that offers no motive, no pattern, and no explanation.
A second case follows—unrelated, and far more disturbing—adding to the strain as Ross and his team realise they are dealing with more than one kind of killer, driven by very different needs.
Away from the investigation, Ross faces pressures he never expected. Caring for his mute twelve-year-old nephew, Ollie, he does his best—unaware how much he is misreading the silence.
As the search for motive intensifies, Ross is forced to confront the hidden reasons behind grief, rejection, and fear—both in the minds of killers and within his own family.
Holding Back is a dark, psychologically driven detective thriller about motive, misdirection, and when keeping up and slowing down must happen at once.
Winner, 2023 Global Book Awards
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Published April 8, 2025
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