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Its been twenty five years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing the Queens cloth but now having stepped out of line once too often hes back in uniform. Hes no longer a detective and he hates it. Still struggling to adjust, Thorne becomes convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly in London are something more sinister. His concerns are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to investigate alone. Now unable...

London Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, investigating the deaths of three women, is horrified to realize that the murderer, skilled at inducing strokes, had not intended to kill the women but to leave them permanently unable to move or communicate--a goal he achieved with his fourth victim Alison Willetts.

Tom Thorne is enjoying a Valentine's Day break with his girlfriend, DS Helen Weeks, when he becomes involved in a case concerning two young girls who have been abducted. The prime suspect in the case is the husband of an old schoolfirend of Helen's. Thorne becomes convinced that, despite overwhelming evidence of the man's guilt, the police have got the wrong person.

Detective Tom Thorne is forced to re-consider an old case when a greiving father takes one of Thorne's colleagues hostage and demands to know the truth about how his son died in prison from the man who put him away.

Detective and country music lover Tom Thorne must thwart a serial killer who is targeting the children of victims of another serial killer from the past.