Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
On the Caribbean island of Camaho forensics expert Michael 'Digger' Digson is a man with problems, big problems. His honesty has made him enemies among his colleagues (and his partner is facing dismissal for killing a man in self-defence). Add to that a brutal roadside murder and an international drugs smuggling ring working out of the island.
Murder isn't the only thing spoiling this paradise, corruption and betrayal are making their mark too. It seems the last thing the authorities want is a cop who will stir things up by actually doing his job.
In this his second crime novel Jacob Ross digs deep under the surface of a society where money and influence can buy a whole lot of silence. Enough to cover up almost any crime; even murder.
In 'Digger' Digson he has created a convincingly honest cop trying to make his way in a corrupt system. A man trying hard to build an identity distinct from the compromised culture around him, but haunted by the fear it is something from which he can never entirely escape.
The prose Ross uses to do so captures brilliantly the cocktail of beauty and badness that characterises island life. Along the way he touches on the legacy of colonialism, political cronyism the melting pot of cultures that makes the Caribbean unique.
This novel marks Jacob Ross out as being not just a new and distinctive voice in literary crime fiction, but in writing from the Caribbean. These are huge shoes to even attempt to fill, yet he manages to wear them as comfortably as if they were a pair of beach loafers.
