One Last Prayer for the Rays

DCI Michael Yorke has come to a posh private school in Salisbury to meet with PC Tyler and DS Jake Pettman.  One of the teachers had gone to the washroom in search of one of his students and found a large pool of blood on the floor.  The student is missing.

Written in blood on the wall of one of the stalls was “In the blood.”  As the investigation begins, Yorke learns that the father of the missing boy had threatened to run away because the father was having affairs.

Later in the day it is determined that the blood on the floor is pig’s blood.  Could the boy have been taken, and the pig’s blood be some sort of message?  The boy’s family has had a connection to pig farming in the past.  Anyone who ever had a problem with the family needs to be identified as soon as possible.  That includes one of their own, Harry Butler.  His wife had been killed by the boy’s great uncle.

Things turn nasty when an video of the boy is emailed to the parents.  Later a ransom demand text is sent to them.

Can Yorke’s team save the boy before he is killed?  Author Wes Markin’s thriller picks up the pace at this point.  I found the book hard to put down and thoroughly enjoyed it.  I look forward to reading the sequel.