Hide and Seek

A thirteen-year-old girl has been missing for a week with no sign of her ever showing up. Until she does. Her body has been left in a car park, naked, filthy, her face covered in garish makeup, her hair in pigtails. Prior to her death, she’d been talking to an online predator…

DI Bethany Smith has the job of informing the girl’s parents their daughter isn’t coming home. Then another girl is discovered, again naked and filthy, the same makeup, the pigtails, except this child has white ankle socks on. Do they mean something to the killer?

That killer has been murdering for most of his life. As a boy, he tortured and took the lives of small animals, doing so to relieve the pain of an unstable upbringing. That isn’t an excuse, especially when he progresses to humans over the years. Some have just upset him, but the girls…the girls have a special meaning.

Why does he want their legs to grow out of the soil?

Will Elsa and Karly, two others he’s been grooming, tell the police what’s been going on?

Why does the killer insist on playing hide and seek?

And what is going through his mind when he moves to an even younger child, a rope noose draped over his arm as he waits for her in the shadows?

(This book contains scenes from a previously published book which is no longer available.)


Genre: Mystery