Just a Coincidence (DS Dave Slater, #2)

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00P0GPF6IThe sleepy little Hampshire town of Tinton, isn’t exactly the type of place where major crime occurs on a regular basis. In fact, the biggest cases DS Dave Slater and his colleagues have to deal with right now are those of a flasher, and an illiterate counterfeiter – and that one is going to be easy to wrap up, as they know who’s responsible! In fact things are so quiet right now Slater has, at long last, taken the plunge and invited the bewitching Jelena on a date! But things are about to change when a dog walker finds the severely battered body of a young woman out near a small patch of woodland known locally as the Haunted Copse. The first puzzle for Slater and colleague Norman Norman to solve is how exactly did the body get there? It couldn’t have just dropped from the sky, could it? Then the dog who found the body comes bounding out of the Haunted Copse carrying what looks like a human femur. Before they know it, they have three dead bodies on their hands, and it soon becomes clear the three bodies are related. But with fifteen years between the murders, is this just a bizarre coincidence, or are the murders linked?With Slater and Norman in command, the team get to work. With one obvious suspect it seems it’s just a matter of proving his guilt, but not every member of the team is as happy as they appear to be, and it’s not long before tension between team members threatens to destroy their normal happy efficiency. On top of that, their simple, ‘easy to solve’ counterfeit case, begins to take on a life of its own, and they find the two cases seem to be overlapping, and it’s fast becoming possible that there is actually more than one murderer, and it really is just a coincidence!