When another body turns up on the Gold Coast strip, Lana is sent from Sydney to Queensland to assist in the case and look further into the inner dealings of the Strike Force Diablo, the team heading up the investigation into the now seven unsolved unalivings across the strip over the last two years.

Henry Loch is a disgraced cop with a bad rep and he is looking for a way to break free of all the strings. He knows the whole operation is about to come crashing down on them and Henry is hoping that solving the original cases is his ticket to a fresh start.  

When the unlikely pair agree to work together, they never could have predicted that two years of work could unravel in a week, exposing the dark aode of the Gold Coast and the task force. 

💭 Thoughts:
The early 80s on the Aussie Gold Coast was a prime time for police corruption, making it the perfect setting for an exposé inspired crime thriller. Told in multiple POVs, its fast paced with snappy chapters that deliver that true crime feel and there were plenty of references that threw me back to my childhood too. 

I like crime books with a mixed media element and the journal excerpts from Emmett Hades, the original head detective of the task force, made for a clever assist to the plot. A once infamous detective and now a broken man haunted and spiralling as the case takes over his soul, he is an interesting character indeed... 

Something that comes up a few times throughout the book is the unsolved missing persons case of Lana's father. She's plauged by it and it's not really delved into. I'm wondering if there might be another book in the future that focuses on this plotline. 

Thanks to the team at Ultimo Press for sending me a copy of The Strip for review.