Dead Silent

<p><strong>Female students are going missing but nobody's noticed yet.</strong></p><p></p><p>A body is found in a car crash but the victim was already dead . . .</p><p></p><p>Police partners Detective Inspector Tom Calladine and Detective Sergeant Ruth Bayliss race against time to catch a vicious serial killer.</p><p></p><p>The first two victims are American university students and both have livestock tags fixed to their earlobes.</p><p></p><p>Who wanted them dead and what's the connection?</p><p></p><p>The detectives piece together the forensic evidence and track down the witnesses to reach a shocking conclusion.</p><p></p><p><strong>If you like Angela Marsons Rachel McLean J.D. Kirk Ian Rankin or Rachel Abbott you'll love this bestselling crime fiction writer.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT <em>DEAD SILENT</em>:</strong></p><p></p><p>????? 'An <strong>outstanding police procedural</strong> that you won't want to put down. Brilliant!' Chris C.</p><p></p><p>????? 'Another <strong>brilliant read</strong>. I am loving this series.' Addicted to Books</p><p></p><p>????? 'Gripped from the very beginning and found it <strong>difficult to put down</strong>.' Beanie99</p><p></p><p>????? '<strong>A real page turner </strong>that kept me gripped. Not to mention a cliff hanger of an ending. Highly recommended.' Tracey</p><p></p><p>????? 'Absolutely brilliant <strong>a must-read for everyone</strong>!' David P.</p><p></p><p><strong>MEET THE DETECTIVES</strong></p><p>Tom Calladine is a single fifty-one-year-old detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life however is not so successful. Having been married and divorced before the age of twenty-one has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape.</p><p></p><p>Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-thirties plain-speaking and loyal. She wishes she had more time for the gym and a love life. She uses her demanding workload as an excuse not to try too hard with the men she meets.</p><p></p><p><strong>THE SETTING</strong></p><p>The series is set in the fictional village of Leesdon on the outskirts of an industrial northern English city. There is little work and a lot of crime. The bane of Calladine's life is the Hobfield housing estate breeding ground to all that is wrong with the area that he calls home.</p>