DARKNESS ON THE FENS a gripping crime thriller with a huge twist

<p><strong>From multi-million-selling Joy Ellis one of Britain's best-loved crime writers with over twenty number-one bestsellers.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Meet Detective Nikki Galena. She will stop at nothing to avenge her daughter. Under the brooding skies of the Lincolnshire Fens she pursues the most vicious criminals.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>A serial killer on a poisonous mission pushes Nikki and her team to breaking point.</p><p><br></p><p>Revellers are flocking into Greenborough for the yearly Dark Greenborough Festival a three-day event celebrating local folklore superstition and the darker side of life.</p><p><br></p><p>What the public doesn't know is that there has been a warning sent to the police: Greenborough will be a very dangerous place this year. The anonymous letter ends with the Latin phrase <em>Mors certa hora incerta</em>: <strong>Death is certain the hour uncertain</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>Detective Nikki and her team soon discover this is no hoax as people start dying from what appears to be alcohol poisoning. As the deaths get more horrific Nikki realises <strong>they have a serial killer in their midst</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>She and her team are in a desperate race against time before more people die.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Setting</strong></p><p>The Lincolnshire Fens: great open skies brood over marshes farmland and nature reserves. It is not easy terrain for the Fenland Constabulary to police: with remote Fen villages dangerous and often misty lanes and poor telephone coverage. There are still villages where the oldest residents have never set foot outside their own farmland. A visit to the nearest town is a major event. But it has a strange airy beauty to it and above it all are the biggest skies you've ever seen.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This totally gripping mystery is perfect for fans of L.J. Ross Angela Marsons J.D. Kirk Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.</strong></p>