Please note this book was previously published as Biding Their Time. Meet Detective Carol Wren. She has abandonment issues—but she never gives up on a case. Yorkshire born and bred, and backed up by her sergeant Dave Waite. His wife has left him—but Carol is fiercely loyal to her partner. The call comes early on Saturday morning. Devoted wife and mother-of-two Sue Cuttersby has been brutally hacked to death in her pretty suburban garden. Detective Carol Wren can’t find anyone with a bad word to say about Sue. But someone hated the unassuming housewife enough to hit her three times on the back of the head with a claw hammer, leaving her to die in agony. This murder was personal—and unusually vicious. Sue’s marriage to Gary, a wealthy businessman, appears to have been happy. But Carol discovers that appearances can be deceptive. The following day, a second body is found. Dumped on the premises of the local vet. Carol finds herself on the trail of a depraved serial killer, the last person you’d expect . . .