His perverted desire is to become the world's most infamous murderer. A popular seaside resort becomes his stalking ground. When the bodies of young women are discovered mutilated, detectives begin their hunt for a deranged copycat killer. Private detective Jim Sheridan is pulled from the brink of retirement when he learns of his daughter's brutal murder. When fellow investigators Carl Lewis and Becky Watts join forces with him, suspects begin to emerge. The focus of the investigation is derailed as Sheridan's past comes back to haunt him. While the police follow traditional lines of enquiry in their search for a forensically aware criminal, Sheridan and Becky grapple with obscure clues gleaned from other sources. Piece by piece the clues start to make sense. As the police eventually close in on their prime suspect, Becky follows her intuition in an attempt to solve the mystery of the killer's identity. And the nightmare begins ...
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pneuma Springs Publishing
ISBN-10
1782283455
ISBN-13
9781782283454
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238577913
Product Key Features
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Author
Peter Hodgson
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Dartford
Date of Publication
05/06/2014
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Author Biography
Peter Hodgson is an energy analyst at a major industrial site in the north-west of England. His interests include True Crime, psychological profiling, science, philosophy and writing. His published works are Critical Murder (2009) and Jack the Ripper - Through the Mists of Time (2011), both published by Pneuma Springs. He has contributed a short story for Ripperologist magazine. His interest in writing began at an early age after reading Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. Inspired by this story, he created his own fictional detective and wrote ten short stories set in the Victorian period. He has ideas for other novels which he hopes to complete in the fullness of time. Peter is married and lives in Blackpool. He is available for interviews most evenings.