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Bled to death and left in a rubbish bin, the teenaged prostitute is just the first victim.
DI Jeff Rickman's investigation into the Afghan refugee's sordid death leads first to the heart of a community who can't - or won't - talk to him. Then the investigation comes home to Rickman's own private life. As the body count starts rising he is framed for a crime he didn't commit. A murderer is trying to make things personal. Very personal. Is he on the trail of a serial killer? Or something even more sinister? Margaret Murphy has written nine psychological thrillers - both standalone and police series. Her work has been published in the UK and the USA, and in translation across Europe, receiving accolades from broadsheets and tabloid newspapers alike, as well as starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist in the USA. Her novels have been shortlisted for the First Blood critics' award for crime fiction, and the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Dagger in the Library; she was the joint winner of the 2012 CWA Short Story Dagger. Margaret is founder of Murder Squad, a touring group of crime writers, and in 2009-10 she was Chair of the CWA. As well as teaching creative writing, she has been a countryside ranger, science teacher and dyslexia specialist, and her lifelong passion for science is reflected in her painstaking research for her novels. In 2013 she will publish her first collaborative novel with forensic scientist Prof. Dave Barclay, under the pseudonym A. D. Garrett.