He imagined what she’d look like dancing, ropes attached to her hands and legs, made to do exactly as he wanted.
When the daughter of a top police officer is murdered in mysterious circumstances, DI Charlotte Savage is brought back from suspension to solve the case. The trail leads to a former asylum, now home to a sinister religious community where all is not what it seems.
Meanwhile, newly promoted DI Darius Riley is part of long-running drugs operation Tarquin, but after an informer is brutally killed, the investigation is in danger of collapse.
Are there links between the two cases, and what can a long-dead Hungarian toymaker, renowned for his realistic puppets, possibly have to do with the murders?
It's up to DI Savage and the team to find out who's pulling the strings…
Mark Sennen was born in Surrey, but spent his formative years in rural Shropshire where he learnt to drive tractors and worm sheep. He has been a reluctant farmer, an average drummer, a failed Ph.D. student and a pretty good programmer. He lives, with his wife and two children beside a muddy creek in deepest South Devon where there hasn't been a murder in years. He is the author of the best selling DI Charlotte Savage series: Touch, Bad Blood, Cut Dead, Tell Tale, Two Evils, The Boneyard, and Puppet; the Holm and da Silva series: The Sanction, and Rogue Target; plus the standalone thrillers: Three and The Sum Of All Sins.
The DI Charlotte Savage series is published by HarperCollins. The Holm and da Silva series is published by Canelo.
I love Charlotte Savage. I have to admit I initially thought I was losing the plot, a lot going on all at once, but I stuck with it and glad I did.. Loved it.. the twist at the end I never expected! To those who gave up reading this.. you missed out.. More from Savage please
Very good story but another book set in England with English characters by an English author but proofread by someone who is obviously American due to the number of Americanisms in the text.