Daniel's Prize

In the normally quiet environs of rural Cumbria, dark secrets spark a thriller murder mystery. The hunt for the killer will entangle not only the lives of the local people, but a secret web of British police corruption that reaches to the highest level. As the threads of this mystery drama begin to unravel, the threat of crime and punishment loom ever closer on the horizon. It is a bleak day when DI Curran and his partner are called to the scene of a grisly murder on a remote Cumbrian farm. A man has been blown in the chest with a shotgun, and there are no witnesses to the crime. The man who found the body is the farmer's son, a young man whose learning difficulties have kept him secreted away from most people. At first it seems to be a simple robbery homicide, not some grand murder mystery drama, but soon dark secrets begin to emerge that throw the British police investigating for a loop. And then it comes to light that the victim has just won over two million pounds in the national lottery - and the ticket is missing. To DI Curran, bastion of police corruption, this represents a golden opportunity, and his concern with solving the vicious thriller murder wane as he instead tries to find a way of getting a cut of the money. Full of twists and turns, this action packed tale of crime and punishment will keep you reading until the very end.