Playing With BonesPaperback, 3 December 2009

Three seemingly separate cases quickly become entangled, and DI Joe Plantagenet must sort them out before more lives are lost.Singmass Close has a sinister past, reputedly haunted by the ghosts of children. In the 1950s it was the hunting ground of the Doll Strangler, a ruthless killer who was never brought to justice. Now DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether a copycat killer is at work when the strangled body of teenager Natalie Parkes is found with a mutilated doll lying by her side. With the recent disappearance of a young female model and an escaped convict at large, this new, horrific murder stretches Joe s team to their limit. But as the bodies start mounting up and Joe s questioning brings him closer to the real strangler, he comes to suspect a shocking connection between all three cases."