The Fine Line
3 primary works
Book 1
If you like Rachel Abbott, Mel Sherratt, and Val McDermid, you'll be gripped by this exciting new crime novel by best-selling author Andrea Frazer. High-Wired is the first volume in The Fine Line series, which sees Frazer show off her dark side as she moves into the world of police procedurals.
The novel introduces us to DI Olivia Hardy, a firm but fair cop, and her new partner, DS Lauren Groves. Their wildly different backgrounds and styles of policing cause problems at first, but the two women bond over a shared love of music, and over the pressures of juggling complicated family lives with the horrors of the job. Both women try to reconcile their problematic family lives - Olivia's issues with her teenage children, Lauren's collapsing marriage - with the demands of a job that requires heart and soul. Their beat is a decaying coastal town in the south of England - a shadow of its Victorian glory - and criminals are lurking even where you'd least expect them. As Olivia and Lauren investigate a harrowing murder, the events of the case spiral - and so do the issues in their personal lives ...
Book 2
After entering a house where a commotion has been overheard, two community police officers make a horrific discovery.
Detective Inspector Olivia Hardy and Detective Sergeant Lauren Groves are dispatched to investigate, triggering a major investigation which ends up with Hardy being usurped as Senior Investigating Officer.
It's yet another problem for Hardy, as she already suspects that husband Hal is having an affair. Meanwhile, as Groves descends into alcoholism after her husband's desertion, both officers' lives seem to be spiralling out of control.
When a baby's body is found at the back of the police station, Hardy takes the unpleasant case, determined to succeed and show the world she's still capable - but things don't turn out exactly as planned...
The second in the Fine Line series of gritty detective novels by acclaimed author Andrea Frazer.
Book 2
