The Dark Water (West Yorkshire Crime Thriller #27)

The Dark Water (West Yorkshire Crime Thriller #27) by Lee Brook is out now (published August 14, 2026).

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The Dark Water (West Yorkshire Crime Thriller #27)

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The Dark Water (West Yorkshire Crime Thriller #27) Release Date: August 14, 2026

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He never turned around.

Whoever came for Danny Frost, on his own boat, in his own cabin, on a quiet mooring outside Leeds, got close enough to swing before he ever saw it coming—one blow. No struggle. No warning in his own eyes.

The cabin door is bolted and locked from the inside. For DCI George Beaumont, that’s the whole case in one impossible line: a man murdered in a room nobody could have left. And the harder George looks at Danny Frost, the less there is to find. No family. No history. No name that holds up past six years ago. Somebody built him a life good enough to vanish into. Somebody has just taken it apart.

Forty boats’ worth of neighbours saw nothing that night. And as George pulls at the marina’s careful silence, he finds old grudges, old money, and older secrets, all of them circling a dead man nobody really knew—and every thread leading back to the same narrow stretch of water. Because Woodlesford protects its own—it always has. George is about to find out exactly how far that runs, and how long it’s been going on.

Some doors don’t need a lock to stay shut.

Set within the suburbs of Leeds, West Yorkshire, this fast-paced British detective novel is a crime thriller that will keep you guessing until the end.

The Dark Water is the twenty-seventh book in the Detective George Beaumont thriller series.

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