The Hardwick Heath killer Author Surname:Kidd having just discovered that her

having just discovered that her father is in fact alive

he calls the local police

Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge has accompanied his sister to the home of mutual friends for dinner but gets a call from the office and has to leave

Raker tracks down missing people for a living

compromising the upriver dams that control the Vezere that flows through St Denis

The Hardwick Heath killer Author Surname:Kidd having just discovered that herTwo grisly murders. Three days apart. One brutal killer? The call comes at midnight on a stormy March night. A body has been found hanging from a tree on Hardwick Heath. In the dead man's pocket is a handwritten note: SORRY. LIFE IS JUST TOO HARD. LOVE TO YOU ALL. Detective Nicki's instincts tell her this was no suicide but someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make it look like one.