She played with fire. Then she got burned.

DCI Sean Bracken is about to buy a house, his ex-wife is talking about getting married and his father drops a bombshell. He has very little time to get involved with solving a murder, but that's what is thrown into his lap.

A young woman found beaten and burned in an old building will be taking up Bracken's every waking minute. He has seen victims like this before, battered almost beyond recognition, a crime that is more than personal.

With the crime taking priority, it leaves time for little else and takes Bracken into a world he knew existed but hadn't navigated before.

Along with his team, Bracken will need to tread carefully. There's a killer watching his every move, somebody very clever, and very deadly...

Published
December 21, 2021
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Author

John Carson

John started writing in the early 1990’s, starting with 3 horror novels. In 1997, he then decided to switch to writing crime novels. He started a series with a detective called DCI Justice. He attended a weekend writing course in Edinburgh, with Ian Rankin as the tutor, at the end of 1997. Early in 1998 when the first Justice novel was finished, Ian read the book and gave John a written report on it, encouraging him to write more. After 2 more Justice books, John created DI Frank Miller, and decided to self-publish those books in 2014. In 2019, John Created and published DCI Harry McNeil. After that success, John found the original notes for…