The Twelfth Victim

Whenthe Serial Killer Zodiac re-emerges after an absence of twenty years, DCI Stuart Grant is appointed SIO and knows they face a ruthless, intelligent strategic thinker. In the Bucks village of Denenmiss stands The Tanners, the former home of the Carrier family. The mother, son and father all die within three weeks. The Tanners remain empty for twenty years until six local teenagers go missing. The Police enter and find the teenagers are dead. In the cellars and tunnels, the Police find more bodies. Arthur Suggs, a notorious villain, buys a job lot of girls and one attracts his attention. When she turns him down, he rapes her then orders two juniors to take her away and bury her. On his son's 16th birthday, Arthur is tortured and murdered. Many years later, the same fate befalls his son, but before he dies, he learns a family secret. Russian Oligarch Valentin Lenevski has a beautiful daughter Yulia. She meets an Englishman promoting his advanced security technology. When Valentin receives an emergency signal from Yulia in her apartment, he arrives to find her dead and a half-dressed English guest is the only suspect. A man named Raymond McCoy harbours a secret he dares not whisper. A London solicitor suspects he allocated property assets to an imposter from South Africa. An ex-CIA agent searching for two missing engineers recalls a failed mission in Russia. As Zodiac's identity slowly emerges, DCI Grant moves in to make an arrest only to discover a final life-changing twist to the story.