✍ Scribed by Emmy Ellis
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
DI Bethany Smith has been looking into smaller crimes since the Tic Tac Toe case. While she’s eager to get her teeth into something substantial, she’s not keen for more murder.
A killer has other ideas, a man who’s been strangling people all over the country. Roland chops them up and buries them—in graves belonging to recently interred women. To him the ladies are his beloved mother, and she should be with him, not alone in the ground. Or has he got that mixed up and death is exactly what she deserved?
He’s confused, but so is Bethany, who battles to piece things together. When she realises who the killer is, there’s a problem. He has no fixed abode.
How will they find him?
Why is he living inside the back of a lorry?
And who is in there with him, dancing, smiling, and hanging from butchers’ hooks…
By their scalps?
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