Gallowstree Lane: 'An authentic depiction of gang life and police politics' From the author of ITV's The Tower

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DI Kieran Shaw is adamant that the undercover operation must not be disrupted whilst DI Sarah Collins is anxious to catch the killer of a fifteen year old boy. The author does insist at the end of the book that this is a work of fiction but given her previous career in the police I feel fairly sure that experience has fuelled her imagination significantly. The description also doesn't accurately portray the structure of the novel by positioning Ryan and Kieran in opposition to each other, when really they couldn't care less about each other for the majority of the plot.

I would like to thanks to The Pigeonhole, Netgalley, the author Kate London and the Publisher for the opportunity to read this ebook for free in exchange for a fair and honest review. These were, in the main one-act dramas and not very good ones either; no complication, no twist to make them interesting, no learning for the persons involved. Like all police officers, she started in uniform, working for two years on a response team, and then moved into the CID.Lizzie has problems of her own: recovered from a stabbing she received in Death Message, she now has a toddler following an affair with fellow police officer DI Keiran Shaw who has since gone back to his wife and family. Just published today with Corvus Books, it is described as ‘an explosive police procedural about the epidemic of gang violence in London’. This is number 3 in the Collins and Griffiths series by Kate London, but can easily be read as a stand-alone. Only a former police officer could have written a book like this one - authentic, important and pulse-quickeningly good.

About the author: Kate graduated from Cambridge University and moved to Paris where she trained in theatre. I didn't realise this was the third in the Collins and Griffiths series set in London, but this works just fine as a standalone. So when a low-level Bluds member is stabbed to death on Gallowstree Lane, Shaw's priority is to protect his operation.Also, the fact that her and Kieran clashed so strongly in terms of ideals and ethics makes the last chapter in the book ring very falsely in my opinion. Who knew that the death of one boy could bring out and test so much of the good sides, the bad sides, the vengeful sides and even the ambitious sides of the people that got involved in his case? The characters are excellent, especially Sarah who constantly struggles to play by the rules in a police force which unfortunately bends them all the time.