NEXT VICTIM

Meet Detective Rachel King in this brilliant new crime series: an ex-boyfriend who is a villain, a serial killer who is after handsome young men and a young student who thinks she has a long-lost twin brother ...

Thirty-nine year-old mother of two teenage daughters, Rachel lives in a village about ten miles from central Manchester. She is good at her job, but does make mistakes. One of them was getting involved with a budding villain in her teens ... who has recently come back on the scene. When a young man's body is found burnt and tortured, detective Rachel King's investigations start and she has to put together all the loose ends of the case.

Helen Durrant's books play where she lives and works - in other words, where she knows her way around.