When his life drawing model disappears without trace, painter-sleuth Chris Honeysett commandeers a narrowboat and heads down the Kennet & Avon canal in search of her. But it soon becomes clear that someone else is on Honeysett's trail. Who are they ... and what are they really after?
Two women from Bath disappear within weeks of each other -- one is subsequently found dead, while the second is discovered barely alive by Chris Honeysett, artist and part-time private eye. Held captive at a deserted railway station, the woman was being slowly and deliberately starved by a murderer the police dub 'Dr Atkins.' And now it seems the would-be killer wants his revenge on Chris for having spoiled his fun.
It seemed so simple: a murder, an obvious suspect, a shaky alibi. DI McLusky never had it so good. Until a second killing challenges his earlier assumptions. With every new piece of evidence he brings to light, the case becomes more complicated. Does it have its roots in a disappearance eighteen years earlier, or is it based firmly in the present?
It seemed so simple: a murder, an obvious suspect, a shaky alibi. DI McLusky never had it so good. Until a second killing challenges his earlier assumptions. With every new piece of evidence he brings to light, the case becomes more complicated. Does it have its roots in a disappearance eighteen years earlier, or is it based firmly in the present?
