The Friday Girl: A gripping and unpredictable thriller, set in 1970s Dundee (Paperback)

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Newly assigned to CID, Elizabeth Burnet is underestimated from the start, dismissed as little more than a pretty face. But when she uncovers a disturbing pattern behind a series of deaths, Burnet becomes convinced a serial killer is at work, stalking the shadows of Templeton Woods. The force is quick to dismiss her concerns, keen to keep the past buried.

The only person willing to listen is a disgraced former detective with his own reasons for challenging Tayside Police. As they work together, a darker truth emerges. Corruption runs deep, and some officers have much to gain from silencing the dead.

As Burnet closes in on the killer, she is drawn into the fractured mind of a man driven to violence by neglect, cruelty and rage. This is a tense, atmospheric crime novel about power, complicity and what happens when justice is deliberately ignored, set against a bleak Scottish landscape where danger waits just beyond the trees.