The Serial Killer's Apprentice:

by Tim Ellis

A dismembered young woman from Penrith in Cumbria has been found buried in Kielder Forest, Northumbria with her hand protruding from the ground. She’s only the first though, because two other women have been abducted from Penrith as well. DCI Harriet Hogg from Bedlington in Northumbria isn’t happy. The case now involves two police forces and she’s required to establish a Joint Task Force with Penrith. It’s the worst possible scenario though, because DCI Tanner Edge is in charge there, and they have history. There’s a serial killer on the loose who could be linked to a previous case from twenty years before, and they have very little time to catch him. Can they bury their differences and work together before he strikes again?

311 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 10, 2017

About the author

Tim Ellis was born in the bowels of Hammersmith Hospital, London, on a dark and stormy night, and now lives in Cheshire with his wife and one ShihTzu. In-between, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps at eighteen and completed twenty-two years service, leaving in 1993 having achieved the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 (Regimental Sergeant Major). Since then, he settled in Essex, and worked in secondary education as a senior financial manager, in higher education as an associate lecturer/tutor at Lincoln and Anglia Ruskin Universities, and as a consultant for the National College of School Leadership. His final job, before retiring to write fiction full time in 2009, was as Head and teacher of Behavioural Sciences (Psychology/Sociology) in a secondary school. He has a PhD and an MBA in Educational Management, and an MA in Education.

Reviews

[Marilyn Brazier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Housework can wait and has.

Hard to put down, cannot wait for Edge 2, or 3, 4 and 5 to begin with. Liked the people in the story, as always believable inside the cover of the book.