With Soul So Dead

About the book

The pursuit has begun - and time is ticking away. Holly Fenwick believed that she had escaped her worst nightmare.

Twelve years ago, she narrowly avoided falling into the hands of a merciless serial killer. Now, as she works on a documentary in Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders to heal from her past and start anew, she notices a figure that bears a striking resemblance to her former captor. She hurries over, only to discover no sign of the man but a chaotic crime scene - and a missing woman.

Before becoming a detective, DI Rob Marshall was a criminal profiler on Holly's case. Now stationed across the border in Scotland at the new Behavioural Sciences Unit in Gartcosh, Marshall becomes involved in the investigation in his old stomping grounds, but all he has are uncertainties.

Was Holly's return to the crime scene merely chance? Is her account a product of a traumatized mind? As the inquiry proceeds, Holly is forced to confront her deepest anxieties and the unsettling idea that the killer may have singled her out as his next victim. And Marshall must acknowledge the possibility that his version of the truth may not be as solid as he thought.

With Soul So Dead is the fifth installment in the DI Rob Marshall series, featuring a detective plagued by his past who copes with dark humor.