The St James’ Park Murders

When Sarah Stephenson is found murdered and sexually abused in the Tyne-valley market town of Hexham, suspicion falls initially on her husband, George, and then on her lover, Tony Raine. The brutal murder and sodomy of a man with sexual connections to George’s lover, Jenny Maxwell, bears some similar hallmarks and links to the first death. When Tony Raine is murdered, all the evidence points to his minder, Ivan Petrovski, an illegal immigrant, but Elspeth decides that they have arrested the wrong man.