Feisty Detective Sergeant Kate Lewis is back and this time she needs all her wits about her as she takes on one of the most gruelling and risky investigations of her career. The body of missing London journalist Ellie Landy is found floating in the River Parrett by a news crew covering a story on the worst floods the Somerset Levels have suffered in living memory. At first, the local police assume they are dealing with an accidental drowning. But as Kate disobeys orders from the top and continues to delve into the incident, it soon becomes apparent that there was nothing accidental about what happened to Ellie. Following the death of another young woman in suspicious circumstances, Kate finds herself drawn ever deeper into a nightmare world of murder, treachery and perversion - a world which promises to deliver her up as its next victim...?.

Engaged in a police surveillance operation on the Somerset Levels, DC Kate Hamblin leaves the van momentarily and narrowly escapes death when it is blown apart by an incendiary device. Accused of abandoning two colleagues who died in the explosion, Kate is excluded from the resultant murder hunt and effectively suspended from duty. Anxious to nail the killer herself and clear her name, she risks all by entering into an unholy alliance with the murder team's chief suspect and finds herself not only targeted in a personal vendetta by her own DCI, but stalked by the very killer she is pursuing - a killer determined to silence his only witness for good...

To the most law-abiding people, a police station represents safety and security. But Detective Superintendent Jack Fulton finds Saddler Street station just the opposite when he takes on a grisly murder enquiry and discovers that his psychotic killer might actually be one of the staff. With the spectre of the razor-wielding assassin whom the press have nicknamed 'The Slicer' stalking the shadowy Victorian building, Fulton has to contend not only with press harrassment and police who will stop at nothing to get a result but also with other problems much closer to home. As the killer leads him on a grim game of cat and mouse, Fulton has little idea of just how personal that game is about to become....

Set on the mist-shrouded Somerset Levels, this is the latest crime thriller featuring feisty Detective Sergeant Kate Lewis. Newly married to partner, Hayden Lewis, Kate returns from a disastrous honeymoon, only to be plunged into a macabre murder investigation after a teenage girl - last seen leaving a party at the height of a local scarecrow festival - is found strangled and partially stripped in her own barn. Worse still, it soon dawns on Kate that the gruesome crime is an exact copy of the 150-year old murder of peasant girl, Martha Tinney, alleged by superstitious locals to have been committed by a spectral scarecrow, nicknamed Strawfoot. As she and her colleagues desperately try to track down the copycat killer, it becomes apparent that he has no intention of stopping at just one murder, and furthermore, he has developed an unhealthy interest in Kate herself...