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The Hard Detective is the first in HRF Keating's lesser-known DCI Harriet Martens series. It's free right now at Kindle US and UK. As I've mentioned before, this series had been e-published by Endeavour Press, who went out of business quite a while ago. And Endeavour put books on sale/free quite a bit. So I would normally warn you that you might already have this in your library. But this new Lume Books version is free right now too, so unless you just want to avoid duplicates, who cares ???

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BBVVPBW5
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BBVVPBW5

Spoiler:

DCI Martens has had to be unyielding to make it in a man’s world — and has rightfully earned the nickname the “hard detective”.

It was this toughness that inspired her successful Stop the Rot campaign, which has so provoked local criminals. But now two of her officers have been murdered within hours of each other — the circumstances echoing the Book of Exodus, “a life for a life, an eye for an eye...”.

Has the killer chosen this gruesome ritual to tell Harriet she’s been pushing too hard? And if so, can she prevent the six deaths that will complete the quotation — continuing with a tooth for a tooth…?