Cold Dead Hands: The Complete DC O’Connell Crime Thriller Trilogy by A L Fraine
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Overview: A local businessman, ritually killed in a forest. Four kidnapped models, and a chilling note sent to the police.
A book collector slaughtered in his own library. Three cases, all linked. Can the killers be caught? Kate O’Connell always wanted to be a police detective, ever since the brutal murder of her aunt. On her first day on the Surrey Murder Team, Kate is thrown into the deep end. A local businessman has been murdered. Ritually sacrificed, in a local forest. Partnered with the disgraced Nathan, they strive to hunt down the killer before he strikes again. But Kates troubled past threatens to overwhelm her at every turn, and a mysterious presence from her younger days, taunts her from afar. As the evidence builds, it seems there may be more to this case then just a crime of passion. Can Kate and Nathan find the killer before he kills again?
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. The Upper Hand
When a local businessman is brutally murdered in the English countryside, apparently sacrificed, DC Kate O’Connell must unravel the web of lies surrounding his death, before more people are killed.
It’s Kate’s first day on the Surrey Murder Team, a specialised group of detectives working on homicide cases in the affluent Home Counties, just outside London.
Partnered with DC Nathan Halliwell, the pair investigate the death of a local man whose killing has all the hallmarks of an occult sacrifice.
Horrified by the disturbing killing, Kate dives into the case, keen to prove herself to her superiors by breaking through the lies that surround the victim’s life before the killer strikes again.
But the ritualistic nature of the crime dredges up disturbing memories of a past tragedy.
While wrestling with the demons of her past, Kate learns that her partner has a few skeletons in his own closet that threaten to taint the investigation or ruin her career.
Kate must break the silence surrounding the victim to get to the truth before it’s too late, and the death toll rises.
2. Idle Hands
When Kate and Nathan receive a photo of four kidnapped models, the clock starts ticking for the detectives to save their lives before it’s too late.
Kate has been on the Murder Team for a few months now, working run-of-the-mill cases with Nathan. But the memory of that first case, and it’s disturbing details, still bothers her.
Meanwhile, four models arrive at a shoot in a local abandoned mental asylum and are violently kidnapped.
The next day, a photo of them lands on the desk of Kate and Nathan, with a chilling note.
Fearing their imminent murders, the detectives begin the hunt for the missing models, delving into the photography community within Surrey, and the complex, fractious relationships between the photographers and models.
As the hours pass, evil influences raise their heads once more, and the pressure to save as many of the girls as possible grows.
But when links to Kates first case on the Murder Team become apparent, she begin’s to wonder if there really is more going on here than meets the eye.
3. Out of Hand
A hunt for a killer and the item he’s willing to kill for drags secrets from the past out into the light of day. The stakes have never been higher for Kate and Nathan.
When a local man is brutally murdered in his home library, Kate and Nathan are brought in to find the killer. But this was no ordinary library.
Filled with books on the occult, it’s clear that they were after something. Something that was not in the library. Something that they’re willing to kill for.
With the clock ticking, Kate and Nathan must find the killers, or the item they were after, before they kill again.
But as Kate embarks on this latest investigation, her aunt’s killer taunts her from the shadows, threatening to reveal her past to the world.
Is he connected to this latest death?
It seems that the shadowy organisation that sanctioned the first the killings, is back, and out for blood…
…and only Kate and Nathan stand in their way.
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