HEART OF THE DEMON (2010)
Heart of the Demon is the first novel in the DS Hunter Kerr crime thriller series.
Detective Sergeant Hunter Kerr and his partner Grace Marshall are called to the scene of a brutal slaying: the victim is a 14 year-old girl.
The killer has been disturbed but has left behind a puzzle. What is the significance of the marks gouged into the girls torso and why has a playing card been left with the cadaver.
As the Major Investigation Team struggle to resolve the mystery they are confronted with another gruesome discovery; the mummified remains of a teenage girl is unearthed from the slurry of a former colliery site. This corpse bears all the hallmarks of the first slaying and yet this body has been buried for well over a decade.
They soon realise that a savage killer is stalking Yorkshire, preying on young girls, and with the discovery of the bodies comes a series of revelations about the past. For Hunter Kerr and his team the race against time is complicated by the fact that several of his colleagues have been involved on the periphery of earlier crimes, without even knowing it. And as the death toll mounts, as more bodies are unearthed and new victims succumb to the murderer’s sick appetites, he finds that this case comes very close to home. Very close indeed!
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(UK) Paperback 2010
ISBN: 9 781907 475634
COLD DEATH
To be released Summer 2012 by Caffeine Nights Publishing
“Hunter pushed and pushed to learn the truth never realising that once he found it he would have to live with the consequences forever.”
Taking a well earned break from the ‘Dearne Valley Demon’ serial-killer case, Detective Sergeant Hunter Kerr’s rest is suddenly shattered when he witnesses a violent argument involving his father, shortly followed by a murderous road rage attack upon his parents.
As he delves deeper, Hunter uncovers disturbing facts and suspects that his father is a harbouring a sinister secret from his past, a secret, which he is desperate to keep buried.
In his father's native Scotland a violent killer is on the rampage. Four innocent people are found tortured and butchered. Is there a link ?
In Barnwell, Hunter’s working partner, DC Grace Marshall, recovering from her own psychological problems arising out of the ‘Demon’ serial killer case, is ‘acting sergeant’ in his absence and soon finds herself in charge of her first major incident; the body of a young Asian woman, is discovered at the bottom of a lake by two amateur divers.
