A Walk to Revenge — Sam Thompson

A drizzly 1970's Manchester night, a hit and run. DI Jonty Ball leads the case, eventually written off as unsolved. Twenty-three years later Jake Hughes and his wife Emily are on holiday in England enjoying the world's second most popular walk when a chance meeting leads to the re-opening of the case,Jake meets DI Jonty Ball and between them, they slowly expose a major UK crime family. The family story begins as Roberto Sartori Senior emigrates with his family from Sicily to Liverpool in 1909, Following his death years later, his sons, Roberto and Giovanni, become heavily involved in the 1920's New York prohibition era. They build the business to an unprecedented present-day operation, working undetected for sixty years, using a strategy evolving around the requirements of each passing decade. As Jonty Ball closes in, the crime family bears its' teeth and a web of murder, deceit, and money laundering unfold, reaching major UK establishments. It's a game where the winner takes all! Or do they?