DI Tom Shearer has been called out to a spa where the manager has been
found inside the sauna, done to a crisp. Shearer suspects that the
victim had a heart attack and the sauna overheated.
Meanwhile DI Robyn Carter has a case of her own to investigate. Someone
has been attacking people with a knife to rob them. He has injured a
few of the people he has robbed. Fortunately her team has their man due
to someone turning him in.
A friend of the man who died in the sauna tells Carter that there was no
way he would have gone into the sauna because he had a heart condition,
which would have been aggravated by the heat and humidity.
Unfortunately, DCI Mulholland will not let Carter look into it any
further.
A few days later the barman at the Happy Pig pub has his throat
slashed. This is Carter’s case. In the hand of the victim was an
invoice, marked “Paid in Full”. It is quickly discovered that the
barman had worked at the spa in the past.
Unable to get the other case out of her mind, and unable to continue to
investigate it, Carter asks her cousin, Ross Cunningham, a private
investigator, to check into things on her behalf.
Shearer is next to have a case similar to Carter’s. A woman has been
murdered in her own home. She also has an invoice with her body. What
is going on, and why kill a young mother? What was the debt that was
being called in? Carter vows to catch the killer.
She hopes to interview another man who works at the spa, but he is
killed by a hit and run driver. Again an invoice is found with the
body. Carter immediately arranged protection for another man who she
thinks could be in the killer’s sights.
Can Carter stop the killer before he strikes again? Author Carol Wyer’s
murder novel is fast paced, and a page turner. I found it hard to put
down. A thoroughly enjoyable quick read.
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