Pray For Rain

A British detective thriller set in a sweltering Peak District summer, where a serial killer of women taunts the police and the media crowns him with a Ripper name. Procedural crime suspense with dark humour and a haunted lead investigator.A killer on the loose. A detective on the edgeJake Sawyer is feeling the heat. Returning to duty after an enforced psychological break, he s called in to investigate the murder of a young woman found near one of the Peak District s key beauty spots.Sawyer is intrigued by the unusual mix of extreme violence and decorative presentation, and when the death is connected to the earlier killings of three other local women, he joins a task force of regional detectives in a hunt for the man the media are calling The New Ripper.As the UK sweats in a record-breaking heatwave, a fifth woman goes missing, and the killer contacts the police, personally challenging Sawyer to catch him before he claims her as his next victim.A page-turning British detective murder-mystery with twists, dark humour and a compelling lead character whose backstory continues through the series.Pray For Rain is book ten in the Jake Sawyer Crime Thrillers, a British thriller for fans of Val McDermid and Ian Rankin.Praise for Pray for Rain.????? Edge of your seat reading with great characters, twists, and a compelling plot. ????? Set aside plenty of time, because you won t want to put it down. ????? I absolutely loved this book. It kept me wanting more and more. ????? Prose that gets under your flesh and into your bones. ????? Taut and compelling. Not a wasted word. ????? Plot and character perfectly intertwined. ????? Keeps you reading through the night. ????? Poetic and utterly gripping.