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Fin: Revenge is Best Served Cold
Set in Norfolk in 1982, ‘Revenge is Best Served Cold’ sees Fin Adams, a young detective Inspector and his sidekick Sergeant Norris solve a sudden rash of murders in Norfolk.
Both had worked together since Fin was a detective constable and Norris a uniform. Envy though and politics within the London police force had seen them reassigned to the supposed backwaters of Norfolk. They were considered an ‘odd couple’ by those who didn’t know them and brilliant by those who did.
Fin completed a first class honours degree in Chemistry and Physics at Cambridge, during which he made some spectacular breakthroughs in the field of bioenergetics. However after his mother’s murder for which no one was charged, he swore to use his brain and skills to ensure that crime did not go unpunished. Fin came across Norris when he was being derided by his fellow police officers for his visions and instinct, despite him giving clues to detectives and solving some cases. Norris can see aura’s or visions relating to evidence that is uncanny and unsettling to many. Together they make a great team.
Revenge is Best Served Cold revolves around an ‘accident’ at Anvil Mill that is owned by the Clarke family. Jas Knapp is a long time right hand man and ‘sorter’ for Harry Clarke Senior who owned and built the business during and after the Second World War. Rumours abound about blackmarketeering and other criminal activities during a time when money was scarce and businesses were trying to recover after the war. Harry Clarke gave loans and after the war he foreclosed forcing many people to penury and suicide.
Jas is found drowned in a grain bin at the mill early one Monday morning. At first glance it looks like an accident but Fin soon finds that it was murder. On the morning that Jas is found and whilst his wife runs to the mill when she is told, his house is broken in to and his office ransacked. Is it coincidence or reason for murder?
Whilst investigating the break-in, Fin and Norris find secreted away in Jas’s office, hidden incriminating documents that reveal a whole myriad of crimes and intrigue. Jas’s death is followed by Ralph McNeil’s who works at the mill and is found hanged in a wood having gone missing from work the day Jas was found dead. What was set to look like suicide turns out to be murder.
Events gather pace quickly with the murders of Harry Clarke’s son and Petra Kowalski in different locations but at the same time. Whilst Harry Junior’s death is gruesome having been nailed down to the floor of a supposedly vacant property and then set alight, Petra Kowalski’s death is one of frenzied and personal knife attack.
Chance sees Fin and Norris find an employee covered in blood and Harry Clarke Senior stabbed and near death. Was he trying to kill him or save him? Badly wounded Harry Clarke is taken to hospital where he recovers, only to be attacked and killed in his hospital bed along with the policeman guarding him by having their throats cut by an unknown assailant.
Fin revisits Jas’s office in search of new clues and finds a hidden scrap book that charts the crimes, apparent car accidents, stolen bodies from local morgues and even the careers, deaths and suicides of former and serving police officers. Fin, Norris and the team begin to unravel the web of intrigue that and corruption that extends across Norfolk and soon identify their prime suspect. The dead have come back to seek revenge.
Both had worked together since Fin was a detective constable and Norris a uniform. Envy though and politics within the London police force had seen them reassigned to the supposed backwaters of Norfolk. They were considered an ‘odd couple’ by those who didn’t know them and brilliant by those who did.
Fin completed a first class honours degree in Chemistry and Physics at Cambridge, during which he made some spectacular breakthroughs in the field of bioenergetics. However after his mother’s murder for which no one was charged, he swore to use his brain and skills to ensure that crime did not go unpunished. Fin came across Norris when he was being derided by his fellow police officers for his visions and instinct, despite him giving clues to detectives and solving some cases. Norris can see aura’s or visions relating to evidence that is uncanny and unsettling to many. Together they make a great team.
Revenge is Best Served Cold revolves around an ‘accident’ at Anvil Mill that is owned by the Clarke family. Jas Knapp is a long time right hand man and ‘sorter’ for Harry Clarke Senior who owned and built the business during and after the Second World War. Rumours abound about blackmarketeering and other criminal activities during a time when money was scarce and businesses were trying to recover after the war. Harry Clarke gave loans and after the war he foreclosed forcing many people to penury and suicide.
Jas is found drowned in a grain bin at the mill early one Monday morning. At first glance it looks like an accident but Fin soon finds that it was murder. On the morning that Jas is found and whilst his wife runs to the mill when she is told, his house is broken in to and his office ransacked. Is it coincidence or reason for murder?
Whilst investigating the break-in, Fin and Norris find secreted away in Jas’s office, hidden incriminating documents that reveal a whole myriad of crimes and intrigue. Jas’s death is followed by Ralph McNeil’s who works at the mill and is found hanged in a wood having gone missing from work the day Jas was found dead. What was set to look like suicide turns out to be murder.
Events gather pace quickly with the murders of Harry Clarke’s son and Petra Kowalski in different locations but at the same time. Whilst Harry Junior’s death is gruesome having been nailed down to the floor of a supposedly vacant property and then set alight, Petra Kowalski’s death is one of frenzied and personal knife attack.
Chance sees Fin and Norris find an employee covered in blood and Harry Clarke Senior stabbed and near death. Was he trying to kill him or save him? Badly wounded Harry Clarke is taken to hospital where he recovers, only to be attacked and killed in his hospital bed along with the policeman guarding him by having their throats cut by an unknown assailant.
Fin revisits Jas’s office in search of new clues and finds a hidden scrap book that charts the crimes, apparent car accidents, stolen bodies from local morgues and even the careers, deaths and suicides of former and serving police officers. Fin, Norris and the team begin to unravel the web of intrigue that and corruption that extends across Norfolk and soon identify their prime suspect. The dead have come back to seek revenge.
266 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 8, 2016
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