EditorThe Lowestoft Chronicle editor reviewed Broken Kite by Timothy J. Lockhart for the Lancashire Post today. A snippet is below:
A missing-person case sweeps private investigator Wendy Lu into the murky underbelly of Virginia Beach, a city where the lost and desperate slip through the cracks and justice remains a rare commodity.In Broken Kite, Timothy J. Lockhart’s second Wendy Lu novel, he exposes the grim realities of human trafficking and the narrow margin between survival and ruin. Lockhart, both a lawyer and former Navy intelligence officer, brings the weight of lived experience to his fiction. Since his 2017 debut, Smith, he has earned a place among writers of lean and gritty mysteries with his stories marked by a tough procedural edge and emotional grit.
Set in southeastern Virginia, Wendy Lu is a Chinese American ex-cop and Navy veteran who bears the scars of her past. Still haunted by the death of her former police partner and lover, Bobby, an event that led to her resignation and struggles with alcoholism, she is propelled by a need for redemption, often taking on cases long abandoned by others.”
The full review can be found in the Lancashire Post and syndicated to these UK newspapers: Blackpool Gazette, Burnley Express, Lancaster Guardian, Sheffield Star, Wigan Today (Wigan Observer & Wigan Post), and Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived online access to these reviews as they originally appeared on January 13, 2026, can be found at these weblinks:
Blackpool Gazette, Book-marked, Burnley Express, Lancashire Post, Lancaster Guardian, Sheffield Star, Wigan Today (Wigan Observer & Wigan Post), and Yorkshire Evening Post.
