Ds Pete Gayle

A police officer is reported missing. When his car is found in a remote spot, and his body nearby, the investigation intensifies. Who is the mysterious and untraceable "friend" he was last seen with? And was he involved in the killing or was this a random attack after they parted?Then there is another attack, and another, in an escalating series. Cops across the region are being targeted. But who by? And why? Pete and his team are pulled into a race against time to identify and apprehend a man who seems to know every trick in the book to stay hidden. And their own safety as well as that of their colleagues is at stake. Raised in a farming family in Northamptonshire, England, Jack Slater had a varied career before settling in biomedical science. He has worked in farming, forestry, factories and shops as well as spending five years as a service engineer. Widowed by cancer at 33, he remarried in 2013, in the Channel Islands, where he worked for several months through the summer of 2012.He was forced to retire early from laboratory work in late 2019 by ill-health and now concentrates on writing and interests such as gardening, home-improvement, photography and genealogy.He has been writing since childhood, in both fiction and non-fiction.