Dead of Winter (51 page)
GRAVE DOUBTS
He was only a pupil, learning from a master who was uncompromising about the rules of the game he had invented. Normally he obeyed them, but with her the temptation had been too strong. Otherwise he was an adept pupil, becoming more skilled every time. This one would be his best, he was certain. Perhaps tonight he might…even…kill her.
Having survived a terrifying attack as part of an investigation, Sergeant Louise Nightingale retreats to her remote family cottage to lick her wounds, comforted in the knowledge that her attacker is behind bars. But when a serial killer starts terrorising the country, her colleague, DCI Andrew Fenwick, questions whether or not they have the right man. For Nightingale, the true nightmare has only just begun…
Spine-tingling suspense with a dark underbelly of psychological terror – this is a book you will not dare put down.
INNOCENT BLOOD
They watched as the car burnt. A smell of gasoline mingled with the throat-catching stench of melting rubber, almost masking the sickly sweet smell of roasting flesh. No one spoke. The time for recriminations and the apportionment of blame would come. For now they were united by the need to cover up a crime and destroy evidence.
As DCI Fenwick investigates a powerful and predatory paedophile ring and Inspector Nightingale is left to deal with an ex-serviceman turned vigilante, they are both forced to ask themselves the question: when is a murderer not a murderer, and how far are they prepared to go to see justice done?
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First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2013.
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Copyright © 2013 by E
LIZABETH
C
ORLEY
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ISBN 978–0–7490–1575–6