SLAUGHTERED AS THEY SLEPT an absolutely gripping killer thriller full of twists

<p class=ql-align-justify>A mother lies brutally murdered in her ransacked two-bedroomed flat. Beside her are the bloodstained bodies of the two police officers who were first on the scene. In the bedroom are the victim's two children a six-year-old boy and a baby slaughtered as they slept.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>And the killer is still in the flat.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Paterson sets off in hot pursuit. But after a desperate rooftop chase the killer escapes.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>The following day another woman is found dead in her own home her decapitated body carefully posed in her living room her wrists pierced by crucifixes.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Why were these women targeted?</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Paterson and Clocks have never had to deal with a killer like this. A killer who shows no mercy. A killer who can't be reasoned with. A killer who covers their tracks with super-human efficiency.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>If they are to get their man the two detectives must break every rule in the book.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>At the same time married life is not turning out as Clocks had hoped and his newly-discovered son has just given him some <em>very</em> bad news . . .</p>