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Violation Kindle Edition

by Sally Spencer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
Children in Harrisburg, Virginia are being targeted…

Only Lieutenant Mike Kaleta can stop him striking again!

It was Kaleta’s wife who wanted them to move from New York to Harrisburg, a medium-sized city in Virginia.

Now she’s his ex-wife.

Her loathing of him is only equalled by that of her father – who just happens to be the mayor.

The chief of police, who hates college boys on principle, is not his biggest fan, either - all of which makes it harder for him to track down the monster who has so far attacked five little children.

The attacks are sparking outrage and fear among the city’s parents and politicians alike.

And worse is yet to come, because the deeper Kaleta and his partner, Sergeant Carrie Williams, get into the investigation, the more it seems to him that there are people – powerful people – who will do all they can to make sure he does not succeed…

Can the determined pair really discover the truth?

Violation has twists and turns that take the reader in chilling and surprising directions.

Praise for Sally Spencer



‘The characters are rich and complex, the plot is unusual and inventive, but it's the delightfully droll, wonderfully witty doses of humour that make the novel such a pleasure’ - Booklist

“Characters are diverse, intriguing, and believable . . . plots never fail to surprise; and the procedural details are grittily realistic” - Kirkus Reviews

“Spencer's finest hour: a tightly plotted puzzler with surprises at every turn”- Kirkus Reviews

Sally Spencer worked as a teacher both in England and Iran - where she witnessed the fall of the Shah. She now writes full time.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06X1GKM74
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lume Books
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 20, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Sally Spencer

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Sally Spencer is a pen name, first adopted when the author (actually called Alan Rustage) was writing sagas and it was almost obligatory that a woman's name appeared on the cover (other authors like Emma Blair and Mary Jane Staples are also men). However, Alan uses James Garcia Woods as his pen name for the mysteries set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.

Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a teacher. In 1978-79 he was working in Iran and witnessed the fall of the Shah. He got used to having rifles - and, one occasion, a rocket launcher - pointed at him by both soldiers and revolutionaries, but he was never entirely comfortable with it.

He lived in Madrid for over twenty years, and still considers it the most interesting and exciting city he has ever visited, but for the last few years he has opted for a quieter life in the seaside town of Calpe, on the Costa Blanca.

His first series of books were historical sagas set in Cheshire (where he grew up) and London. They were very popular with his English readers, but his American readers find the dialect something of a strain.

He has written twenty books featuring DCI Woodend (a character based partly on a furniture dealer he used to play dominoes with) and thirteen (so far!) about Woodend's protegé Monika Paniatowski. His DI Blackstone books are set in Victorian/Edwardian London, New York and Russia, and the DI Ruiz books have as their backdrop the Spanish Civil War.

Alan is a competitive games player who likes bridge and pub quizzes. It is only by enforcing iron discipline that he doesn't play video games all the time.

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  • DragonPoetikFly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Violation
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2019
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    Fantastic 10 stars!! I thought I knew, but I didn't know and it's get better and better my minds blown! The author gave everything in this novel held back nothing! Suspense, drama, mystery, romance, thrills, chills, and everything in between! I had so many different emotions reading it, I thought I'd close the book and just not finish it. I did and I recommend it!
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  • KD
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great story .Hope to see more ..
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2020
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    Kept my interest from the start. Nice hero but would like to see more of
    Caroline as a main person.
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  • RB Rooson
    3.0 out of 5 stars In Investigations, it is in the details.....the little things!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2017
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    First of all, Thanks to Netgalley and Endeavour Press for me obtaining this book.

    Secondly, I have read 27 of Alan Rustage's (Sally Spencer) books and obviously I think them to be worthwhile mysteries, BUT personally having been an Investigator for 40 years (now retired) - I am a "stickler" for details. An American detective, Mike Kaleta, would not carry a "torch" (flashlight); he would not "ring up" someone on the telephone (he would call them on the phone); and in the USA it is not a "retirement scheme", but a Retirement Plan! The word scheme has somewhat of a negative aspect to most of us.

    Other than that, keep going with the stories Sally (er, Alan....)!
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  • DERogue
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ms Spencer, you wrote a helluva book.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2017
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    So well written, while I suspected the guilty, nothing really came together for me until the fast paced, dramatic end.
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  • booklover
    4.0 out of 5 stars Intense Crime Thriller
    Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017
    Five young children have been attacked and left to be found. They've all been molested, some beaten first, one with a broken arm.

    It's up to Lieutenant Mile Kaleta and his partner Sergeant Carrie Williams to find the human monster responsible. It's like swimming upstream. The Chief of Police is a racist and a bigot...he doesn't like Kaleta because his father in law is the mayor, the position that the Chief wants. Williams is a woman and the Chief has no use for women who wear the uniform.

    But then they get a lead... an anonymous note giving them a name of the suspected perpetrator. The young man is arrested, but Kaleta and Williams have their doubts this is the man responsible, even though there is direct evidence in his room.

    The more they dig for further evidence, the more they find there are rich, powerful people involved ... and they want the cast closed pronto.

    Kaleta and Williams find themselves the hunter .... by both sides of the law. They have one option .... run for their lives.

    This is such an exciting crime thriller. The characters are flawless in their descriptions. The story line is solid. Action and suspense abounds from page one to the very end. Highly recommend to anyone who likes crime thrillers.

    Many thanks to the author / Endeavour Press / Netgalley for the digital copy of VIOLATION. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
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  • anna
    5.0 out of 5 stars Really good book. Highly recommend.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2017
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    Great story and characters. Don't have any idea where the next book will go, but look forward to it.
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  • Jackie Roche
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2017
    I would like to thank NetGalley and Endeavour Press for giving me the opportunity to read this which I voluntarily reviewed.
    This is the first book I've read by this author but it certainly won't be the last. Looking at his back catalogue I have plenty to choose from.
    The characters are diverse in age and personality. I immediately like Lieutenant Kaleta and immediately disliked the Chief of Police. To me it's a sign of a good author when I can connect, or not, with the characters.
    There are plenty of twists and turns that kept me engaged in the plot as it unravelled.
    I would definitely recommend it.
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  • Aviar Savijon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another great mystery by Sally Spencer
    Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2017
    Another great mystery by Sally Spencer. This revolves around the search and investigation of a murder. One by one we get to see all the suspects there interactions in their world of excellence and relationships to each other as well as the victim. This tale of thrilling investigation is skillfully, clever and exquisite writing keep you on the edge of your seat and wanted to get to the next page to find out more clues and the answer to who did it. I loved it. I was given a free review copy so I could give my honest opinion of it
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  • Dee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2017
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    Good characters, plot and storyline. This is the first Sally Spencer book I've read but it won't be the last!
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  • Amazon Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good plot
    Reviewed in Canada on May 16, 2018
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    At no point did the story lag. Not a lot of twists but satisfying nevertheless. Found it to be a good read
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  • Tom Williams
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not Raymond Chandler, but worth a read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2017
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    Our hero (and first person narrator), Mike Kaleta, is an East Coast liberal who has moved to a tiny rust-belt town where his wife's father is the mayor. His marriage, though, has collapsed and he is now a liberal fish out of water in a police department staffed largely by thugs and headed up by an idiot. The only exception is Caroline Williams. Rule-bound and officious as she is, the only woman on the detective force is, inevitably, attractive.

    Kaleta and Williams are set to work together to solve a series of paedophile sexual assaults. I must admit to finding the detail of some of these assaults quite unpleasant and I'm not sure how suitable this kind of crime is for what is, essentially, a lightweight novel. Still, the seriousness of the crime does provide some grist to what might otherwise be an overly predictable tale of corrupt officials, dirty cops and a heroic committed crime busting team. At first I thought the story, which pulls up every cliché of hard-boiled crime fiction, far too predictable. (Kaleta’s romance with Williams is inevitable from the moment that he tells us how much he hates her whilst trying to guess what her legs look like under her uniform.)Spencer, though, seems to be aiming for homage rather than rip-off and I think she pulls this off. She’s not Raymond Chandler but her style has wit and a hard-boiled humour. Turning down a courtesy blow-job from the town whore, Kaleta says, “I hate to look a gift-mouth in the horse.” In a story-so-far aside he tells the reader, "Only a couple of days ago I forced two cops off a cliff, and now I've sunk to lying. By tomorrow I'll probably be stealing from the cookie jar.” More importantly, the prose bowls along, carrying the reader with it. As the plot develops it becomes a little less predictable than you might have expected, although anyone paying attention will have spotted the evil villain more or less when they first appear with "Evil Villain” stamped across their forehead. Still, the twist at the end is worth waiting for and I found that, for all my reservations, I had genuinely enjoyed the read. I look forward to the next (for a sequel is as predictable as Kaleta’s enthusiasm for bourbon).
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  • Mrs. Bruce
    3.0 out of 5 stars An o.k. read - lots of bad language
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2017
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    This is the 4th book by this man that I have read. I really enjoyed the Blackstone book and "The Madeiran Double Cross",
    but this one and "The Stalker" - both set in the USA - were only o.k. and I wouldn't pay full price for them.
    There was a lot of bad language and several typos, and I thought the book was rather slow in the middle section.

    The crimes under investigation were a bit harrowing - the rapes of small boys and girls. Det. Kaleta is hated by his
    Chief of Police and by his ex-father-in-law, the Mayor. With the help of his female partner, Kaleta gets too close to
    the truth of the investigation and is framed by the bad guys. He has to fight back to save not only his job, but his life.
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  • caroline greenhalgh
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2017
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    Good building of the characters with an interesting plot line that paints a intriguing story. Look forward to more of the author
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