First in a new series, this historical features a young inexperienced policewoman in World War II-era London. She investigates a frightening serial murderer who has been strangling young women with piano wire.
A government initiative contracts bands of citizen volunteers to collect payment. Bulletproof Suzy, recruits 3 other young females to exploit the opportunity to earn enough cash. Suzy's friend, Joanne disapproves of the venture. Joanne is found murdered outside Suzy's tower block not long afterwards, and Suzy herself remains the prime suspect.
A woman wakes up one night terrified to find a strange man in her bedroom. The woman is an author, and the man is one of her prospective characters. Alvar Eide is a forty-two year old single man whose life begins to change when a young heroin addict walks into the art gallery where he works. So desperate ...
