When he was seven years old, Detective Inspector Temple found his mother murdered. Since then, he’s been a man on a mission to find her killer. It’s what drove him to join the police. Now, finally, he has a chance to discover the truth.

An elderly man is savagely beaten in his own home. His attackers show no mercy. Left for dead, the World War II veteran crawls to the phone to call for help . . .

Eighteen months later, Guy Newland is summoned to a meeting in a hotel in Egypt. He’s told his DNA has been found, linking him to a historic crime. Newland knew this day would come. He’s been plagued by a woman’s face in his nightmares for the past thirty-five years.

Four months later, two young men are found in a car in the woods, each with a gunshot wound to the head.

DI Temple must pull the threads together and find out what links these shocking crimes. And will he finally find out the truth about his mother?

DISCOVER A RACE-AGAINST-TIME CRIME THRILLER FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS.

This gripping police procedural is perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, J.M. Dalgleish, Lynda La Plante, Kimberley Chambers, Helen H. Durrant, Damien Boyd, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney or Mark Billingham.

THE DETECTIVE

As a small boy, DI Temple found his mother dead. She had been brutally murdered. With the crime unresolved, Temple is a man on a mission to find her killer. It’s why he joined the police. With the past throwing a long shadow over his life, this makes him even more determined to seek justice for other victims as he hunts their killers. His personal quest makes him difficult to live with and difficult to work with and his relationships suffer. But he’ll stop at nothing to protect his family, even though they are estranged — and if it means breaking the law.

THE SETTING

The DI Temple novels are set in Wiltshire, a largely rural county. Its landscape of beautiful rolling hills, downs, and valleys gives no immunity to the crime that infects its scattered towns and villages. Steeped in ancient history, the tourist guides make no mention of the organized crime groups, the murders and turf wars, or the drugs that saturate the streets, lanes and school playgrounds. The M4 artery across the top of the county pumps its poison from London and Bristol, linking east and west coasts, providing criminal gangs and networks with an easy route to ply their deadly trade.