Unsafe Convictions Taylor, Alison G.

A Welsh detective thriller that digs into the rot beneath small-town respectability. When a young woman is found dead in a children's home, DCI Michael McKenna uncovers a web of institutional abuse, buried secrets, and convenient lies. Alison G. Taylor writes with forensic precision about police politics and the human cost of looking the other way. The North Wales setting is atmospheric and bleak — grey skies, grey morals, grey areas everywhere. McKenna himself is a sharp, solitary investigator navigating departmental hostility while the case pulls him toward uncomfortable truths about power and complicity. Taylor, a former probation officer, knows how systems protect themselves at the expense of the vulnerable, and she doesn't flinch. For fans of British procedurals with bite, or anyone who likes their crime fiction morally complex and structurally rotten. This isn't cozy — it's cold, angry, and utterly gripping.