While on loan to a sister precinct, Detective Annie Cabbot awakens in a strange bed with a young man she met the night before. Appalled at her behavior, Annie's self-flagellation ends when she's called out to a murder scene.
On the cliffs overlooking the sea, Karen Drew, a quadriplegic with a mysterious past, is found in her wheelchair with her throat cut. On that very same morning back home, Annie's partner, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Bates, probes into the brutal rape and murder of 19-year- old Hayley Daniels, whose body was found in the Maze, a group of alleys surrounding the market square.
The clues for these two different murders suggest a connection to each other. As the investigation proceeds, Annie and Alan must scrutinize a murder inquiry from their past that may correlate with this case. They have two separate killers with separate agendas, but somewhere they converge with one another. Complicating matters is their struggle to untangle their professional and personal relationship. After another daring murder occurs, Annie and Alan must hurry to find the killers before they strike again.
Peter Robinson delivers a terrifying and intricately plotted classic whodunit that will keep readers glued to the book until the final page. The layers of complex characters and intertwining plots make it an exceptional read. Robinson does not disappoint in this latest Inspector Bates and Cabbot mystery!
Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes.
One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, a woman named Karen Drew is found in her wheelchair with her throat slit. Back in Eastvale on that same morning, in a tangle of narrow alleys behind a market square, the body of Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled.
Two murders . . . two towns . . .
On loan to a sister precinct, Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot draws the first case. Karen Drew seems to have lived a quiet and nearly invisible life for the past seven years. Try as she might, Annie turns up nothing in the woman's past that might have prompted someone to wheel her out to the sea and to her death.
Meanwhile, in the Hayley Daniels murder, Chief Inspector Alan Banks has suspects galore. Everywhere she went, the 19-year-old student attracted attention. Anyone could have followed her on the night she was out drinking with friends, making sure she never made it back home.
Then a breakthrough spins Annie's case in a shocking and surprising new direction, straight toward Banks. Coincidence? Not in Eastvale. Banks and Annie are searching for two killers who might strike again at any moment and with bloody fury.
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