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Northfolk, 1920. Barbara Bosgrove has lived in the market town of Melsham all her life, and is looking forward to the annual Harvest Supper dinner ball- the first since the dark days of the First World War.

George Kenneth, a fiercely ambitious man, had his eye on Barbara since spotting her with her great friend Penny, and Penny’s brother Simon. He begins a slow and steady courtship and Barbara is eventually won over, agreeing to marry a man she believes can rely on.

Little does she realise how wrong she can be. Worn down by George’s unfaithfulness during their marriage, Barbara feels she has lost all the vitality of her youth.

But Simon is not prepared to let Barbara lose sight of the woman she really is-the woman he has always loved. Her reawakens Barbara’s passion and fighting spirit, but at what cost?

Unspeakable crimes.

Unimaginable motives.

An unstoppable killer.

Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghost to rest and start anew, She’s arrived in Ireland to drag the Irish crime lab into the 21^st century, plus keep tabs on her Irish-born father who’s increasingly seeking solace in the bottle after a family strategy.

A brutal serial killer soon puts paid to that. When a young man and woman are found dead in an apartment, the gunshot wounds on their naked bodies suggest a suicide pact, But Reilly’s instincts are screaming that something’s seriously amiss, and as more bodies are discovered, the team soon realizes that a twisted murderer is at work, one who seeks to upset society’s norms in the most sickening way imaginable…