Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book. This is the 4th in the series featuring King and Lane and although I have read them all, this is by far and away my favourite. It had me gripped from beginning to end and the pace does not let up at all. Once you dive into this story you are hurtled along and taken on a roller coaster of a ride. I love everything about Victoria Jenkin's writing, believable characters who have their flaws and every day problems as we all do. This is a fantastic series and its been an honour and a privledge to have read them all. I have no hesitation in recommending this book or the series. A brilliant fast paced gritty read. Do yourself a favour check it out.

Victoria Jenkins is an Australian crime writer and this is the fourth in her series with Detectives Alex King and Chloe Lane. I haven't read any of the previous books, but A Promise to the Dead functions as a stand-alone.

A young couple run out of gas in an isolated area. Matthew leaves his girlfriend in the car as he searches for help. Unfortunately, he winds up seeing something he wasn't supposed to and the next morning he is missing and his girlfriend is dead.

Alex and Chloe have another case of a missing young man, and then the discovery of a body that proves to be that of a young man who went missing thirty years ago. Are the three cases connected? Two recent disappearances and the remains of a young man from decades past keep the team trying to unravel the puzzle.

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Police Procedural. Jan. 21, 2019.