A Calculated Risk

Detective Jo Shaw has it all worked out. She's good at her job, she has loads of mates, and she likes being single. She doesn't need complications, but an emergency call to the stabbing of a young woman brings plenty of those. Jo has to risk her career to save the woman's life, and a bad night gets worse when the trauma surgeon turns out to be Isla Munro, Jo's only real love, who walked out on her fifteen years ago and never came back. With the victim's children missing and the husband the prime suspect, Jo's investigation is stonewalled by a community living in fear. As one dead end leads to another, she and Isla are forced to put their differences aside and work together. But the case is far more dangerous than Jo realizes, and her determination to sort the truth from the lies may put her own life on the line.

Cari Hunter lives in the northwest of England with her wife, their cat, and a field full of sheep. She works full-time as a paramedic and dreams up stories in her spare time.
Cari enjoys long windswept muddy walks in her beloved Peak District. In the summer she can usually be found sitting in the garden with her feet up, scribbling in her writing pad. Although she doesn't like to boast, she will admit that she makes a very fine bakewell tart.
Her first novel, Snowbound, received an Alice B Lavender Certificate for outstanding debut. No Good Reason, the first in the Dark Peak series, won a 2015 Rainbow Award for Best Mystery and was a finalist in the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards. Its sequel, Cold to the Touch, won a Goldie and a Rainbow Award for Best Mystery. A Quiet Death, the final book in the series, was shortlisted for the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards and won the 2017 Rainbow Award for Best Mystery.
Cari can be contacted at: carihunter@rocketmail.com