Face Value - Andrew Ian

Winner of the BookLife Prize for Fiction.

Kara Wright and Tien Tran MC - Private Investigators - Former Intelligence Operators - veterans of Afghanistan, Iraq and other places still classified - Retired British Military - Damaged Goods.

Tien, one of the first female soldiers to receive a Military Cross, paid for it with her left arm from below the elbow.
Kara came home from her theatres of war physically fine, but a lack of empathy and hard-wired reactions to events makes her dangerous. To herself as well as to others.

When siblings Zoe and Michael Sterling insist that their middle-aged parents have gone missing, Kara and Tien are sceptical and then quickly intrigued; the father, ex-intelligence analyst Chris Sterling, appears to be involved with an elusive Russian thug.

Regardless, their PI firm is broke and they could do with the cash, but Kara needs to keep looking over her shoulder, for as she and Tien close in on their quarry, a team of Cambridgeshire based detectives are closing in on theirs.

Face Value is the gripping first book in the Wright ' Tran crime thriller series.

If you like electrifying action, breathless pacing, and three-dimensional characters, then you’ll love this award-winning special ops detective novel.