Deadly Secrets

DCI Erika Foster was in the way to Christmas lunch when she arrived on a crime scene.  DC John McGorry informs her that the victim had been badly slashed to death on her doorstep.  Foster decides to forgo lunch.  It doesn’t take long for them to arrest a potential suspect; someone who seemed to have been stalking the victim.  However, shortly after showing him evidence, he commits suicide in his cell.

A couple of days later when Foster and DI Moss go to speak to a man who had been having an affair with the victim, they find that he too had attempted suicide.  Fortunately, they arrive in time to prevent that from happening.  Speaking to a neighbour afterwards, they learn that he had been with the victim on the day she had died.

The next person Foster and Moss speak to is an elderly lady for whom the victim worked.  She informs them that the victim had been assaulted by a man wearing a gas mask a couple of months before.  This puts a new light on the case.

However, when Foster’s elderly father-in-law has a fall and breaks his hip, she takes herself off the case and hands it over to Moss so that she can care for him.

Can Moss solve the crime, which had Foster struggling to solve?  Author Robert Bryndza has a few surprises in store for Moss, Foster and the reader over the next several chapters.  A thoroughly enjoyable read and hard to put down.