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A lost detective, treasures from the past, and people traffickers at an ancient church – can Bill solve the case and save Danny’s life?

DI Bill Scathlock thought he’d seen the last of his troubled DS, Danny Sawaski, when he recommended him for an undercover assignment, but he wasn’t expecting him to disappear altogether. He certainly wasn’t expecting was to have his own sick leave interrupted by their friend Charlie pleading with him to help find Danny, who seems to have been forgotten, even to the extent of him losing his welfare officer – and that’s not good.

As Bill and Charlie dig deeper they find that nothing is as it seems. Danny is out on his own; the people who are being trafficked in this area don’t correspond with any previous victims; and there’s a medieval church involved with standing stones in its walls …if only they could figure out how.

The more they dig, the stranger things become, and when archaeologist Nick Robbins gets involved, the facts he helps unearth seem only to make things more confused. Who are the people who mysteriously appear at the old church? And are all of the Polish gang as bad as they first thought? With Danny’s predicament getting ever more dangerous the clock is ticking if Bill is to save him before he gets killed by the gang, or arrested by his old colleagues.

Time’s Bloodied Gold is the first paranormal mystery featuring DI Bill Scathlock. If you love Phil Rickman’s Merrily Watkins series and James Oswald’s Inspector McLean stories, or Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, you’ll definitely want to read this.

To unravel the mystery, and discover whether Bill can extract Danny from the gang’s claws in time, pick up a copy of Time’s Bloodied Gold today!