WEAVING SHADOWS

Amy Dennis is beaten to death with a hammer in her own home. Her baby is asleep upstairs.
A custody battle now rages between Amy's family and the baby's father, a married man.
A case Clara can't refuse.

Clara Pascal is struggling to put her life back together after being the victim of a brutal kidnapping. She wants to go back to work, but she's not ready to return to criminal law. She wants a relationship with her daughter again, but she doesn't know how. She can't find a way back into her once-loving marriage. She wants to return to normal. But what is normal?

The prime suspect is a convicted stalker. Ian Clemence is fresh out of prison and itching to make up for lost time. But Clara can't shake the feeling that he's innocent. Can she find out the dark truth?

Margaret Murphy is a past Chair of the Crime Writers Association (CWA), founder of Murder Squad, and a former RLF Writing Fellow and Reading Round Lector. She's been a country park ranger, biology teacher, dyslexia specialist and Visiting Professor in creative writing. A Short Story Dagger and CWA Red Herring award winner, she has also been shortlisted for the 'First Blood' critics award and CWA Dagger in the Library.