4 Stars from me
This is book 1 in the Cam Killick series and I am glad to read that a series is planned as I found Cam (and Nala of course) to be an interesting character and I look forward to following his future adventures.
In The Troubled Deep we learn that Cam’s most favourite thing is to be under water, so much so that he prefers to sleep that way too – this man has served his country and bears the physical and mental scars and PTSD heavily in his day to day life.
The storyline is complex, exciting and ultimately sad and I couldn’t help wondering if it wouldn’t have been better for everyone had Cam never made that initial discovery.
Despite the massive amount of distrust and corruption some burgeoning relationships have formed setting the scene nicely for these to develop in future books.
Rob Parker has achieved no mean feat here by bringing a new slant to the police procedural / cold case / crime thriller genre and I keenly await more!
My thanks to NetGalley, Bloomsbury Publishing and the author for an ARC in return for an honest review.
Blurb: Nobody ever knew what happened to the Brindleys. One summer they were there – flashy, loud and beautiful – and then they were gone. A mother, father and two children, vanished into the East Anglian night.
Some said the family never made it home from the party; their speeding car thrown off the tracks and the four of them silently buried in the marshes. Others said they had simply moved on. For thirty years, the case remained as cold as the freezing waterways of the Norfolk broads.
Until Cam Killick found the car.
An ex-marine and ex-SBS officer, Cam Killick’s PTSD has made the return to civilian life a living nightmare. The only place he can find peace is underwater, where the world is muffled to white noise. As a cold case diver it is his job to scour the waterways of the country for the lost, the submerged, the drowned, laying their stories to rest alongside them.
Except when Cam throws open the doors to the Brindley car, all four bodies are missing. And Cam will soon learn that some secrets, once submerged, are better off staying that way.
Read and Rated 