Devils in the Mirror

By Lesley Horton

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752865765
• ISBN13: 9780752865768
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 354 Pages

Customer Reviews

Murder on the moors

The body of Shayla, a teenaged schoolgirl is found on a large rock on Harden Moor, a local beauty spot in the north of England, with her limbs arranged as though for a ritual sacrifice. An autopsy reveals that Shayla had been suffocated after being raped repeatedly and the locals believe that one of her teachers was somehow involved. A year previously, Shayla had accused one of her teachers, Graham Collins, of sexual assault but had backed down and admitted to lying. Collins name was cleared but the school board still kept him on suspension for the year and he was becoming increasingly agitated that his teaching career might be over. Shayla had been a member of a gang of girls who habitually played truant from school and who had become very adept at bag snatching at the local malls and were becoming more violent as they continued to avoid being caught by the police. Detective Inspector John Handford and his colleague Detective Sergeant Khalid Ali investigate anyone who was connected to Shayla in any way, and are puzzled to be unable to find any background to Graham Collins before his teaching days. It's a very good read with crime, racial hatreds and prejudices all getting in the way of what should have been a more straight forward crime solving and I'm looking forward to more stories involving DI Handford and his team who are a story in themselves.