Publisher's Synopsis
It's Friday the thirteenth and Detective Inspector Andy Horton's luck is about to run out. His Harley-Davidson is vandalised, a strange symbol etched into the paintwork. Is it some kind of warning? To make matters worse, Horton's nit-picking boss, DCI Lorraine Bliss, has returned early from her secondment to HQ. And a convicted murderer out on licence has gone missing. Luke Felton. Horton recognises the name from a case he worked as a sergeant. Now a decomposing corpse washes up in Portsmouth harbour. The bloated body is found lying in the thick slimy mud. Before Horton can get a grip on either case, his phone rings. He doesn't recognise the number. A voice on the other end gives him an address: Willow Bank, Shore Road, Portchester. Horton knows it. The house belongs to a woman he'd met the day before. And now she's dead. Her body lies in her windswept garden.
