THE CARDIFF KILLINGS

An isolated manor house. Shallow woodland graves.
A troubled female detective facing the biggest case of her career.
Eight graves. Eight dead women. All with pomegranate seeds placed inside their mouths.

The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen Hall, just north of Cardiff. DI Jemima Huxley and her partner, DS Dan Broadbent, race to the scene to discoverer that a second body has been unearthed in a shallow woodland rave. And the forensic team working the site believe this is just the start.

Jemima knows this is the biggest case of her career. But it couldn't have come at a worse time. Struggling to get pregnant, she is a woman on the edge, a woman who self-harms just to make it through the day. And with no one reported missing, no apparent motive and no obvious suspect, the investigation is anything but straightforward. When Jemima makes an unexpected breakthrough, she enters a desperate race against time to prevent more women dying.

Gaynor Torrance lives near Cardiff with her husband and their rescue cat, Cleo. The area is the setting for her Detective Inspector Jemima Huxley series of books. Like Gaynor, Jemima has a bachelor's degree in psychology. Though, apart from them both having a keen interest in human behaviour, that's where the similarities end. When she is not writing or glued to her Kindle, Gaynor enjoys listening to music, playing the piano, walking, travelling, and eating far too much chocolate.