The Killer Shadow Thieves
J.F. BurgessA man with a secret is MURDERED. A detective’s daughter is ABDUCTED. Two illegals are ASSASSINATED.
What connects them?
When
he foils a deadly heroin deal, widowed detective DI Tom Blake sets off a
chain of events that change his life forever. Things become even more
perilous when seemingly unconnected, links between the gruesome murder
of a skinhead, and the arrest of a vicious loan shark, unwittingly
disrupt an international gang’s daring plans to steal the world-famous
Staffordshire Hoard.
In a cruel twist of fate, Blake’s teenage
daughter is abducted, propelling the bereft detective on a quest to save
her life. Operating outside the law, he’s racing against the clock,
following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady world of
stolen artefacts, across America, and all the way back to Stoke, chasing
a shadowy killer driven by greed and revenge.
As the body count
rises, Blake and his team struggle to unravel the conspiracy and with
only circumstantial evidence against each of the suspects, they hit a
wall, until twenty-six-year-old photographs linking them to murders
emerge. It seems the victim’s depraved past is the key to identifying
the killer.
Can the police uncover the truth through all the
deception and crack the case before the killer murders anyone else who
threatens to expose him? And will they recover a legendary national
treasure, worth millions, before it’s lost forever?