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When You Are Mine
BY MICHAEL ROBOTHAM
(LITTLE BROWN)
Philomena (Phil) McCarthy defied the odds to become a police officer with the London Met, despite her father being a one-time gangster now turned legitimate businessman. It’s not her family connection but her response to a domestic violence call-out that threatens to turn her life upside down: the perpetrator is Darren Goodall, a highly decorated police officer. Despite warnings to leave the case well alone when it is shut down by her superiors, Phil is driven by the need to bring him to justice. She develops a friendship with Goodall’s victim, and is further fuelled to bring him to book when she discovers that he also abuses his wife
