DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in the Lafferton area as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers? Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, who will give Simon a bitter taste of this new landscape...
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January, and Christmas vanished without a trace.ONE
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(@vintagebooks, 4 August 2022, paperback, 320 pages, copy from the publisher)
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I've read a few books in this series so I was really looking forward to A Change of Circumstance which lived up to my expectations. This a bit different from other books in the series as it deals with drugs and the exploitation of vulnerable teenagers and young adults. There are some harrowing moments as Simon struggles to solve the case and stop anyone else from dying. I thought this was gripping and intense. I liked it a lot.
