Alan Ormston

A Chip in the Stone Alan Ormston

Family. If you had none to speak of, who would you call family? To Detective Inspector Ryan Cole, it was a question he asked himself everyday. When a message is left for Cole at the scene of a minor collision inside a supermarket's car park, he immediately recalls a suspect from twenty years ago - a suspect he failed to stop. A killer he failed to stop. A man Cole promised to stay away from. As DI Cole and Detective Sergeant Jack Stone begin to unravel the mystery of the killer's actions, Cole realises that the man he remembers has got even more unpredictable, but his intentions have never been clearer, and the safety of a fallen detective's family is put on the line. With Jack Stone's grit and determination - not to mention his stubbornness and wit - the two men walk a path between what is morally right and wrong - no matter how personal the case gets. Jack struggles to battle against his soldier's instincts and finds himself having to step over a line in order to get to the truth that will lead him to a dangerous climax on a bridge with only the Master as company - and death the only way off. With the pieces in place, Cole sees that his family is all around him and the relationship between them had never been stronger. But the decisions he has made have the power to destroy the trust that binds them all together...