Worse Than Dead (Inspector Drake) (Volume 2)

A ferry leaves Dublin...The chief engineer lies dead on the car deck ...There s a killer on board... Inspector Drake is called from a seminar on cyber crime to meet the ferry docking at the port of Holyhead. Frank Rosen the chief engineer lies on the car deck a knife through his heart. For the first time Drake knows where the killer is but he doesn t know who. When Rosen s house is ransacked the night after he s killed Drake knows the killer was looking for something. The data stick Rosen s wife finds may hold the clues. But the codes and numbers on it only complicate the investigation. And then Drake s cousin makes contact and tells him he has information. But can Drake rely on him or does he have another agenda? And when the team discover a direct link to drug dealing in North Wales and beyond there are powerful forces at work. Drake s cousin drags Drake s family into the middle of the case that piles the pressure on Drake who s facing regular counselling for his OCD and the prospect of losing his father to cancer. When Drake s superior demotes him and acts entirely against protocols Drake knows that something is wrong. Establishing the evidence takes him to Dublin and Cardiff and then on a last minute chase over North Wales to catch the killer.