DANGEROUS PURSUITS

Grabbed by a man who plants himself between her and her home, Rachel Somers, 17, takes off into the nearby forest, followed by architect Gethin Phillips, the longtime domestic partner of her mother, hotel owner Pru Somers. Soon after Rachel runs from the woods into the arms of used bookseller Gabriel Ash, a friend of Hazel’s, traumatized but not seriously hurt, DC Emma Friend finds Phillips bashed to death by a tree limb the Meadowvale police know they’re never going to find. A second attack reported a few days later by 15-year-old Sky Pascoe makes DCI Dave Gorman fear his department is looking at a serial rapist. But questions and contradictions raised by the stories told by Rachel, a gifted pianist, and her relentless stage-door mother make both Gorman and Hazel, returned from a leave in Cambridgeshire after her last case, wonder if the situation’s both simpler and more complicated than that. Could the attack on Rachel have been only a smoke screen for the criminal’s real target, the murder of Phillips? Or is it possible that Phillips ran after Rachel for some other reason than to rescue her? Hazel, not one to bear wrongs patiently, will seriously endanger her quest for assignment to Meadowvale CID before justice is done.

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