Newly promoted DCI Jemima Huxley faces her most challenging case yet in this fast-paced British crime thriller from a bestselling author.

Detective Jemima Huxley is called out to a gruesome scene in isolated Rhymney Valley. Two men have been bound and hanged from a strange old iron structure.

It’s clear the bodies have been here some time. Birds have pecked the men’s faces to ribbons. They both have something carved into their foreheads — but it’s impossible to work out what.

Jemima sets up a task force in the nearest station, but tensions soon rise between local police and these big-city detectives. The old guard don’t like being bossed about by a woman. For Jemima’s team, it’s like stepping back in time.

Then Jemima hears about a spate of unexplained deaths among young people in the area. Could it be connected to these grisly murders?

Whatever is going on out in these valleys is darker than anything Detective Jemima Huxley has ever seen. It will take everything she’s got to crack this case — before more young lives are lost.

A PULSE-RACING CRIME THRILLER THAT WILL KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT.

Readers of Simon McCleave, Rachel McLean, Ann Cleeves, Helen H. Durrant, Angela Marsons and J.M. Dalgliesh will love Gaynor Torrance’s feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.