AN ARTFUL MURDER

Detective Sara Hirst faces her toughest and most bizarre case yet.

The first body is found forced inside a huge terracotta urn on the lawn of a country manor in a remote corner of North Norfolk. A few days later, a young woman is found, tied to a golden chair with her throat slashed. At both crime scenes, the killer leaves a bizarre calling card. The victims were part of a group of friends at university back in the day. Two of them are dead. Two are still alive - but for how much longer?

The team's new DCI, Helen Hudson, is convinced the prime suspect is Dom Wilkins, one of the victims' old flames. But Detective Sara thinks she's missing something obvious. Can she stop a serial killer before they strike again?

Yorkshire born, Judi Daykin has lived, worked, and made theatre in Norfolk for the last forty years. She completed her MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and her debut novel was shortlisted for the Little, Brown UEA writer's prize in 2019. Judi is also a working actor and has been known to twiddle the knobs on the sound desk for the variety shows at Cromer Pier. She runs her own theatre company, Broad Horizons, specialising in commissioning new plays recovering and retelling women's stories.