Cracked by Imy Ellis

MEET DI TRACY COLLIER. SHE TOLD HERSELF THE PAST DIDN’T MATTER. SHE WAS WRONG . . . It’s Friday and Detective Tracy is looking forward to the weekend. She needs a minute to recharge, to be a normal person instead of some mad woman who runs around chasing criminals. But all thoughts of rest and relaxation vanish the minute her office phone rings. A dead woman has been found in one of the beds at Wallinburg’s, a local furniture store. Tracy grabs DS Damon Hanks and makes her way to the shop, where they find twenty-six-year-old Shannon Mullins lying in a top-of-the-line display bed. Tracy pulls back the layers of fancy bedding and stares down in disbelief. Shannon’s body has been chopped into pieces and then carefully put back together — like a twisted jigsaw. Then Tracy finds a piece of crossword puzzle under one of the pillows: Item used for ferrying shopping around inside a supermarket. If Tracy can crack the code, it will put her one step closer to catching the most hideous criminal mastermind she’ll ever have the displeasure of dealing with. This utterly gripping crime thriller is perfect for fans of Martina Cole, J.D. Kirk, Ian Rankin, Charlie Gallagher, Steve Parker and J.M. Dalgliesh.