A Place of Blood and Bone

the long version

When an undercover police officer is killed and a deadly shipment of pure heroin hits land, it looks as though the operation to bring down Brighton's biggest dealer is compromised. But the investigation is in more trouble than either Detective Sergeant Minter or his boss, Tom Beckett, could ever imagine. Embarking on a bloody journey that will set him on a collision course with Beckett and his team, Minter is pulled back into his own troubled past - to a childhood spent in care and the vicious murder of his closest friend. And as past and present converge Minter finds himself pitted against the only family he has ever know - the oplice family - as he fights to uncover the startling truth.