{"product_id":"conspiracy-on-the-levels-david-hodges-9781805736516","title":"Conspiracy on the Levels: an addictive crime thriller full of twists","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN IS FIGHTING FOR HER CAREER - AND MAYBE HER LIFE - IN THIS GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER FROM A FORMER POLICE OFFICER.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElderly Agnes Everard doesn't stand a chance. The car slams into her at breakneck speed, then vanishes in a cloud of billowing smoke and burned rubber.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHours later, two officers knock on Detective Kate's door. A witness swears it was Kate who hit Agnes Everard - and the evidence agrees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate knows it's a lie. 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But he is also highly intelligent with a reasoned approach to everything, which, can sometimes act as a brake on his partner's impulsive behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE SETTING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA patchwork of fields, peat moor and marshland, dotted with picturesque villages and criss-crossed by man-made irrigation ditches or rhynes, the Somerset Levels covers an area of about 160,000 acres between the Mendips and Quantock Hills. Sparsely populated and prone to flooding with a brooding stillness, which creeps into the very soul; a secret place bound to fire the imagination of any self-respecting crime novelist, whose thoughts will invariably turn to . . . murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Hodges is a former police superintendent, with thirty years' service. 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