Fifth Suspect

A DCI deals with a homicide on a boat in the Thames-and hostility from his own colleagues-in the debut of this police thriller series.A shady London nightclub owner is found dead on his boat on the River Thames-and newly promoted DCI Alex Fleming, a man with a troubled past, is keen to prove his worth with his first murder case after joining the Major Crime Unit of Thames Valley Police.But Bill Watson, a belligerent fellow DCI, gives Fleming a hostile reception and, as internal politics come into play, Fleming finds himself up against both a difficult case and his own colleagues. During the course of the investigation, Fleming and his sergeant identify five suspects. Now they need to eliminate them one by one-or figure out whether they should be looking somewhere else entirely-in this first book in an electrifying new crime series.