Shallow Grave
A Matt Sinclair Mystery
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Beloved detective Matt Sinclair returns for a thrilling third adventure in this acclaimed police procedural series
When the Oakland coroner's office uncovers a body buried in a shallow grave in the outskirts of the city, homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair expects to find a drug dealer caught in the crosshairs of a turf war. Instead, the victim is identified as Phil Roberts, the commander of the police department's intelligence unit and Sinclair's former partner.
Police brass want to pin the murder on a dead member of an outlaw motorcycle gang and they want the case closed quickly, but Sinclair and his current partner, Cathy Braddock, aren't satisfied with that answer. As Sinclair delves into the details of Roberts's past, secrets from his work and personal life come to the surface—secrets that some people will go to any length to keep buried. But Sinclair won't stop until he finds the truth, even if it means sacrificing his former partner's reputation and possibly his own career.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Thiem's cleverly plotted third Matt Sinclair mystery (after 2016's Thrill Kill), the hardheaded Oakland, Calif., homicide sergeant investigates the murder of Phil Roberts, his former partner and mentor who was the current supervisor of police intel. An easy answer presents itself when Reggie "Animal" Clement, the sergeant-at-arms at a biker bar, fatally shoots Shane Gibbs, a motorcycle gang member who appears likely to have killed Roberts. Sinclair's not one for easy answers, though. When he and partner Cathy Braddock begin to uncover evidence connecting Animal and councilman Preston Yates, the police chief who's adept at playing politics suspends him. Sinclair tries to go it alone, but he soon runs into opposition from entrenched interests. Thiem provides a cynical take on the city's power structure, along with trenchant prose ("He'd heard people in AA describe the personality of a typical alcoholic as an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. That was exactly how Sinclair felt right now").
