Book description
When Eric Ward and Sharon Owen defend suspected serial killer
Raymond Conroy, they win an acquittal on a technicality thus incurring
the wrath of CI Charlie Spate. Ward has no desire to act further for
Conroy when the man decides to remain in the north east. Instead he
concentrates on issues arising from Sharon's family trust, though
harassed by a journalist who seeks to interview Conroy. But when
Conroy disappears, and the Zodiac Killer strikes again, this time on
Tyneside, Ward finds himself involved once more, alongside CI Spate
who is under pressure for his apparent incompetence in tracking
Conroy. Complications arise from mysterious dealings in Scotland in
the seventies, but it is only during a murderous climax in a remote
Northumberland farmhouse that the truth finally emerges in the hunt
for the Zodiac Killer.
Roy Lewis is a well-established crime writer with 60 novels to his
name. He lives in the north of England where he sets many of his books.
He is a former college principal and Inspector of Schools who now runs
business training programmes and has business interests in Hong Kong,
Singapore and Malaysia. He has three children - all of them lawyers.
