DI Charlie Priest, and DS Dave Sparkington have been called out to what
appears to be a suicide by electrocution. However, after studying the
way the wires were wrapped around the thumbs of the victim, it appears
that they have a murder on their hands.
As Priest's team delves further into the background of the victim, it is
discovered that he was a convicted killer, who had served his time.
Only, it appears that the victim isn't the killer; the killer still is
languishing in jail. Was he killed simply because he resembled the
jailed killer?
Sometime after this a small-time criminal is murdered. Although the
killing is in a different fashion, Priest wonders if the two are linked.
A psychiatrist is called in, and he is of the opinion that the two
cases are linked.
Priest is thrown for a loop one evening when his girlfriend doesn't
return from a run. The search team finds one of her shoes along the edge
of her running route. Fortunately she escapes from her attacker with
only a few bruises. Priest is taken off the case when his friend, a
doctor, is brutally murdered, but for what reason?
Author Stuart Pawson maintains an electrically charged pace through the
whole of this murder mystery; this is a book that you will not want to
put down.
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