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A page-turning police procedural set in Somerset

The third crime novel from Clare Donoghue in the DS Jane Bennett and DI Mike Lockyer series.

Mike Lockyer has just returned to work after two weeks. He's still shaken by the loss of a victim in the last murder case, and Jane is still stung that Lockyer didn't trust her enough to confide in her about the case before it was too late. But neither of them has the luxury of time to dwell on past grievances. Jane has just received a phone call from a good friend saying that her husband Mark Leech, a retired policeman, has disappeared. When Jane finds dramatic blood splatters in the laundry room, she knows Mark is seriously injured at best, and they don't have any time to waste. And then the body of a young girl is discovered in a tomb under a London greenway, and police resources are stretched even thinner, until it starts to look like the two cases might be related

Three women have been found brutally murdered in south London, the victims only feet away from help during each sadistic attack ... and the killer is getting braver. Sarah Grainger is rapidly becoming too afraid to leave her house. Once an outgoing photographer, she knows that someone is watching her. A cryptic note brings everything into terrifying focus, but it's the chilling phone calls that take the case to another level. DI Mike Lockyer heads up the regional murder squad. With three bodies on his watch, and a killer growing in confidence, he frantically tries to find the link between these seemingly isolated incidents. What he discovers not only test him professionally but throws his personal life into turmoil too.