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The Night Stalker
The Night Stalker
The Night Stalker
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The Night Stalker

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'This is just my kind of book' - Ann Cleeves.

The Night Stalker
is a compelling crime thriller from Clare Donoghue.

Dead Woman's Ditch. The site of a grisly two-hundred-year-old murder – and a recent hit and run. When a young woman's body is found at the macabre landmark in Somerset's Quantock Hills, DI Mike Lockyer and Sergeant Jane Bennett are called in to investigate.

They find a community gripped by fear and superstition. The locals won't venture out at night, believing there's a man stalking the hills; a phantom cloaked in folklore and legend, keeping the sinister legacy of Dead Woman's Ditch alive.

Confronted by a hostile CID team and a murder victim with close ties to their own squad, Lockyer and Bennett will have to accept what they can't see before they can find what's really there . . .

The Night Stalker follows Trust No One in this compelling crime series.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPan Macmillan
Release dateAug 10, 2017
ISBN9781447284734
The Night Stalker
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Clare Donoghue

After ten years in London, working for a City law firm, Clare Donoghue moved back to her home town in Somerset to undertake an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Never Look Back was her first novel and in 2011 she was longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger.

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    The Night Stalker – More Twists Than a RollercoasterClare Donoghue has continued to develop her excellent DI Lockyer series, and this the fourth in the series, is even better than the last, which I thought would be hard to beat. Clare Donoghue knows how to draw a reader in and keep them hooked all the way to the end, as she makes sure there are enough twists and turns to make you think you are on a rollercoaster ride. The DI Lockyer series is well researched, and Donoghue leaves no stone unturned in making sure her characters are believable and the actions are correct.Mike Lockyer is called in to see his boss, when he is told he needs to drop everything that he is doing, all his cases need to be handed off as he is being lent to the Avon and Somerset Police to assist on a complex case. A case that had people ‘upstairs’ watching closely and they do not really trust the Inspector in charge of running the case, and he needs to run it surreptitiously so as not to upset the DI. He is also allowed to take one of his team with him, and he selects DS Jane Bennett, probably they only person that understands how he works.When they get to Somerset and find that even after a few days evidence had not been sent to forensics Lockyer is wondering what he has walked in to. The CID team he is working are obviously hostile to the incomers from the Met, but to their own DI as well, something is wrong.It does not help that the most recent death is that of a woman, who also happens to a twin brother Aaron, who is a police officer on his team in Lewisham, and more importantly dating his daughter Megan. It does not help that his sisters body was found in a burnt-out car at a macabre landmark in Somerset’s Quantock Hills.To make matters worse the site was the scene of a grisly two hundred years before, and the local community are gripped by fear and superstition. Even more so as the locals believe there is a man stalking them at night looking for blood, does not make for an easy investigation.Lockyer and Bennett have accepted that they cannot see everything, and they need to try and find what they cannot see, before they really find out what is happening on the Quantocks. It does not help when they are able to link a number of deaths prior to their current body to the same person, do they realise they are looking for a serial killer who will do anything to protect their identity.With the ineptitude of the local DI, but the backing of local CID they realise there is an unknown dark force at work, setting off plenty of smoke screens, but can they get their killer? With plenty of twists and like a good poker play a few bluffs they solve the crimes eventually but not before others are put in the way of danger.A truly wonderful and breathless thriller that will keep you gripped from beginning to end.

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