Constable crime
4 total works
'Father, I committed murder...I haven't been to confession since then...God forgive me...she didn't deserve that...' Detective Superintendent Mark Pemberton is first on the scene of a deadly car accident and he overhears a deathbed confession that sends him reeling. With his last breath, James Browning admits to killing a woman - the problem for Pemberton? No murders have been reported.
But when a woman's body is found in the woods a few days later, Pemberton gets more than he bargained for. The victim is missing her shoes - the strange calling card of a serial killer who has terrorised the country for a decade.
Has Pemberton inadvertently stumbled upon the mass murderer eluding the police? Or does he have another murder on his hands?
This chilling thriller is the third in Nicholas Rhea's Mark Pemberton series.
Confession was first published in 1997.
But when a woman's body is found in the woods a few days later, Pemberton gets more than he bargained for. The victim is missing her shoes - the strange calling card of a serial killer who has terrorised the country for a decade.
Has Pemberton inadvertently stumbled upon the mass murderer eluding the police? Or does he have another murder on his hands?
This chilling thriller is the third in Nicholas Rhea's Mark Pemberton series.
Confession was first published in 1997.
Millicent Pluke, the devoted wife of Detective Inspector Montague Pluke, stumbles across a woman's body by Devil's Dump, a pool in a remote North Yorkshire moorland stream. Her discovery means Pluke must steel himself not to hunt forgotten horse troughs - the passion of his life - but instead to track down a murderer. As his enquiries intensify, Pluke suspects the ruined Trough House may provide important clues but when he discovers the body has previously been buried but flushed from its well-hidden grave by the ferocious St Margaret's Day flood, his knowledge of moorland folklore becomes vital to the investigation. A maiden's garland was discovered with the body, but why would a murderer take the time and trouble to bury the garland - a symbol of purity - with the victim? Pluke's research unearths that others have also died in Devil's Dump - in 1821 a shepherd name Featherstone drowned in its depths and again, in 1872 another tragedy occurred in the waters; another Featherstone, but this time the victim was a six year old girl who was later buried with a maiden's garland.
And now Susan Featherstone has gone missing from the dale - and she is an agent for an artist who always depicts a shepherd in her paintings of the moors. But the artist too has gone missing, so is Susan victim - or killer?
And now Susan Featherstone has gone missing from the dale - and she is an agent for an artist who always depicts a shepherd in her paintings of the moors. But the artist too has gone missing, so is Susan victim - or killer?
