When a woman is murdered in the seaside town of Scudderton on the east coast, DI Carol Wren is thrown into a case that turns into a complex, confusing one. A second person is found, so what is the link, and who would want them dead?

A menacing duo know the answer to that, and they've been biding their time before putting their plan into action. With two more on their list, one of the pair is a busy bee, going out into the darkness to end lives. The bad girl and bad boy have spoken, and those who have wronged them must pay.

When a third person turns up strangled, it's clear to Carol that someone is systematically picking people off one by one--and that there might be more deaths to come.

Who is the woman who stands in the bushes?

Why is a mother tied to a chair, unable to speak?

And what secrets do the moors hold beneath the summer-dried earth?

Carol is tenacious, and she'll stop at nothing until she finds out.


Carol Wren's story prior to this book features in Raging, Cardigan Estate 10