A Dark Night in Derby

By Harvey Wood

A DARK NIGHT IN DERBY
He saw the killer's eyes. Now the killer knows his face.
Derby, 1960. Martin Baxter is eighteen, jobless, and used to being ignored. He spends his nights walking the alleyways behind the terraced streets, keeping away from a violent father and a mother who never takes his side.
Then one night he witnesses a brutal murder.
Fifteen-year-old Julie West lies dead in the alley, and the man who killed her has already seen Martin. A chase through the gardens and fences of Derby follows. After it, Martin makes a terrible mistake. He goes back to the body, and now his fingerprints are on the knife and her blood is on his coat.
The police are asking questions. DCI Leonard Johnson and DS David Smith are working to find out why a schoolgirl was in that alley and what secret she was keeping from her best friend. Meanwhile the killer is a cold, patient man who has done this before, and he won't stop until the one witness is silenced.
Martin decides to prove what he saw himself. He follows the killer home and plans to break in and find evidence. Then he meets Josie, a runaway with nowhere to go and no reason to trust anyone, and she insists on helping him. Their search for the truth takes them from the quiet back streets of the Arboretum to a house where nothing is as it seems.
A DARK NIGHT IN DERBY is a gripping, fast-paced crime thriller about a lonely young man, a killer who is always one step behind him, and the police closing in on both of them.
Get your copy now and find out how far Martin will go to survive the night.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521079889
• ISBN13: 9781521079881
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"