THE PATIENT MAN by Joy Ellis

Serial killer Alistair Ashcroft is back in town and ready to tidy up unfinished business. Ashcroft sends a sinister text to DS Marie Evans. His opening move in what will prove to be a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. Yet for all his taunts, where is he? In a county crawling with police on the lookout for him, Ashcroft is nowhere to be found. Alongside the hunt for Ashcroft, normal police work must continue. The separate thefts of guns, six pigs, a thoroughbred stallion and some oil lead Jackman’s crew to the notorious Lorimer family, ruled over on their farm by the fearsome matriarch Rachel. Meanwhile, a seemingly routine break-in at the home of gun-club owner Kenneth Harcourt quickly becomes more complicated when a man is shot dead in a carpark by a sniper. A killer is on the loose in the quiet streets of Saltern-le-Fen and he isn’t going to stop at claiming one life. Jackman and Evans race against time to catch the sniper and track down their deadly adversary. Can they finally stop Alistair Ashcroft?

Category: Thrillers – Crime