Detective Charlie Oscar · Book 1
The Ashamed
Working title/s: Near Murder and Jack in Time
Historic child abuse involving powerful members of society
- Genre
- Real Crime Thriller, Psychological Drama
- Structure
- Series based on True Crimes
- Rights available
- World English / Translation / Film & TV
- Audience
- Adult (Content Warning: descriptions of child abuse and paedophilia)
- Word count
- approximately 65000
- Timeline
- From late 20th Century through to present day
- Setting
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
- Narrative Perspective
- Narrated and in 1st (Charlie) and 3rd person past tense.
Synopsis
Forty-five years after enduring unthinkable exploitation, David Ismay finally steps forward. His emotionally shattering confession lands on the desk of Charlie Oscar, a seasoned, relentlessly determined detective who knows how to navigate the darkest corners of human nature. What begins as a single statement soon unravels into a complex, harrowing investigation of historic abuse with multiple victims.
As Charlie and his team painstakingly reconstruct a timeline from an era before computers and modern forensics, they uncover a horrific, decades-long catalogue of crimes. But digging up the past comes with a dangerous price—especially when the trail of evidence begins to attract the unwanted attention of untouchable, high-powered circles in Westminster.
"The Ashamed" is an addictive, ultra-realistic procedural that exposes the trauma of the victims and the unyielding grit required to bring monsters to justice.