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And one more Joffe freebie right now: Dead Centre is the seventh and final book (although the Kindle page says it's the first, but I believe SYKM) in Joan Lock's historical Inspector Best series. I haven't read this series, which was published back in the 2000s, but am always happy to try a new historical series.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGGZ2X49
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGGZ2X49

Spoiler:

1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.

Trafalgar Square. London.

Unrest has been building for days, the unemployed gathering daily to protest and nightly to sleep.

The police are exhausted by extra duty; blamed for failing to do more to prevent the disorder, they grow increasingly bitter about the protesters’ accusations of brutality.

When a prominent member of one of the new socialist organisations is found dead at the foot of Nelson’s Column, it only adds more fuel to the protesters’ fire.

DI Best and Constable Roberts must juggle competing priorities as they search for the killer and attempt to manage the Trafalgar Square situation.

To make matters worse, Best catches a glimpse of Stark, a man guilty of murder in Whitechapel — the only witness to the crime is Florence Bagnall, Roberts’s fiancé.

As tensions rise and time begins to run out, Best realises that something terrible is about to happen…and that he may be powerless to stop it.