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Shallow Grave by Brian Thiem

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Also by Brian Thiem:

A Killing Reputation, January 2027
e-Book
A Death in the Deluge, July 2026
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A Killer in the Cordgrass, February 2026
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The Mudflats Murder Club, August 2025
Paperback / e-Book
Shallow Grave, July 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Red Line, August 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

SHALLOW GRAVE
By: Brian Thiem

Matt Sinclair
Crooked Lane Books
July 2017
On Sale: July 11, 2017
320 pages
ISBN: 1683311434
EAN: 9781683311430
Kindle: B01N0SJTLD
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Police Procedural

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.

With Shallow Grave, Brian Thiem brings back his beloved detective for a thrilling third adventure in his acclaimed police procedural series.