DS Ian Peterson has been calked out late in the evening to investigate
the stabbing death of a woman found sitting in a park. He is not
impressed by the husband's reaction to the news the following day.
When a vital witness disappears, and the husband's car is stolen, it
would appear that the finger is pointed more so at the husband as the
killer. Especially when it appears that the body of the witness pops
out of the boot of the missing car when it is involved in a collision.
DC Polly Mortimer is assigned to help Peterson with the investigation.
Is she going to prove to be a help or a distraction to him?
They seem to catch a break when a lad is caught with the knife used in
the murder of the first victim. Unfortunately they can't pin ownership
on anyone. Shortly after that a third victim turns up.
Author Leigh Russell has a few surprises left in her pen for the reader
before the story's climax is reached. DS Ian Peterson's story is a
spinoff of another series that the author had written previously.
Unfortunately I felt that this story was written by a first time writer
who was developing her characters. Further reading in this series will
help to see how the main characters develop.
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