Deadly Secrets (A Lambeth Group Thriller #1) by Gordon Bickerstaff

From Goodreads

The truth will out…

Gavin's life will be turned upside down when he joins a company to work on a product that will revolutionise the food industry. His initial gut instinct is to walk away until he discovers one of the company directors is the former love of his teenage life.

The financial implications are global and incredible. Powerful individuals and countries are prepared to kill as they compete to seize control of the company. Corruption at high levels, a deadly flaw in the product, and the stakes jump higher and higher.

Against overwhelming odds, Gavin must rescue his former love from the hands of an evil cult as they prepare her for a living nightmare.

My thoughts

I gave this a 4 stars or 8/10.

This is not the first Lambeth Group Thriller story that I have read. I broke my cherry reading Tabula Rasa back in December, 17 and subsequently read Tears of Fire both of which I have reviewed and blogged about.

Deadly Secrets is the first in the Lambeth Group Thriller series. In this story we are introduced to Gavin Shawlens a bio-chemist whose knowledge is needed to help produce a product that could have great significance to the food industry. He is wary of the Company at first, until he realises that he was intimate in his youth with one of the Directors. As you can imagine the product development that he is working on, in the wrong hands can have serious consequences to others.

As Gavin gets embroiled in the fight from others to gain ownership of the product that he is working on, he begins to uncover other things and it's not long until he is required to help rescue his former love the Company Director from the hands of an evil organisation who are preparing her for a living nightmare.

I enjoyed this story and felt that Gordon Bickerstaff had some knowledge or had done plenty of research into the threads that some of this story deals with. We learn a lot about Gavin Shawlens and how he interacts with those around him. It sets the series off to a great start and has left me wanting to read more. In some ways parts of this story reminded me of a story by Robin Cook. If you read this story in the future or have already read this story, then you'll possibly know what I am on about without giving away too much.