Book Description

In this 5-book box set:BOOK 1: SPITE YOUR FACEDevoted wife and mother-of-two Sue Cuttersby has been brutally hacked to death in her garden with a claw hammer. The following day, a second body is found. Dumped on the premises of the local vet. Detective Carol Wren finds herself on the trail of a depraved serial killer — and it’s the last person you’d expect . . .BOOK 2: HOLD YOUR BREATHLocal fisherman Ortun Bevan is found tethered to the railings at the end of the pier — dead. The local fishing community are unwilling to talk to outsiders and it’s proving impossible for Detective Carol Wren to make any headway. Until she discovers her new neighbour’s been burgled — and there’s a connection between the theft and Ortun’s murder. But as Carol delves further, she uncovers another unsolved killing and a series of sinister secrets stretching back more than fifty years. Will old crimes lead to new murder . . . ?BOOK 3: GUILT BURNS HOLESA body is discovered in an alleyway behind Buns ‘n’ Bread, the local bakery. The dead woman’s been cut open, the wounds sewn up with lurid green thread. A pile of discarded skin lies beside her. The victim is Karen Stokes. She left her local pub after a night out three years earlier — and was never seen again. So where has she been all this time? As Carol digs further, another local woman disappears. Now Carol and her team are in a race against time before she meets the same gruesome fate as Karen Stokes.BOOK 4: BEST SERVED COLDFour damaged people on a seaside pier. Three people won’t survive. Madeline wants revenge for being dumped by her husband. Sofia wanders the pier alone, praying no one takes any notice of her. Nathan hunts the pier for his next target. Desmond is a professional killer on a mission for his boss, but Desmond has his own agenda . . . Meanwhile, Detective Carol Wren is still recovering from the shock of finding her missing mother’s body beneath the patio of her childhood home. But she’ll need to pull herself together to catch a vicious killer.BOOK 5: BLOOD RUNS DEEPVince Irons is bored of his humdrum life and his nagging wife, so he decides to take up a hobby. He kidnaps and kills women and stores them in freezers in a nearby lock-up. Meanwhile, Carol is questioning people on the beach. She wants to know who dumped a bucket full of blood on the shore — and why. Then a body is discovered on the moors. The women of Scudderton are in peril, and it’s up to Carol to keep them alive.