[Calladine & Bayliss 06] • Dead Nasty

**A GIRL’S BODY IS FOUND IN A DUSTBIN. DEAD MEAT IS WRITTEN ON A NOTE FOUND WITH HER.**

**The girl** was part of a group of bullies from the local school. **But DI Calladine recognises the MO of Craig Donnelly, a killer he thought he’d put away forever. ** And coincidentally Donnelly has just been released from prison. But when Detective Calladine charges in, he finds out that Donnelly has a watertight alibi and is under the protection of the local vicar, who thinks Donnelly is a changed man.

**When another girl goes missing from the same group of friends,** Calladine must look elsewhere for the killer and comes across a sinister online predator who was in touch with all the girls.

DS Ruth Bayliss is back from maternity leave, but even her skills and common sense can’t crack the case. **In a race against time, they must stop the killer, someone who may even be close to home, before he continues his vicious killing spree.**

**Full of twists and turns, this is a crime thriller that will keep you turning the pages until the stunning and surprising conclusion**

**DEAD NASTY** is book six of a new series of detective thrillers featuring D.S. Ruth Bayliss and D.I. Tom Calladine.

**If you like Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, Mel Sherratt, Ruth Rendell, or Mark Billingham you will enjoy this exciting new crime fiction writer.**

**THE DETECTIVES**

**Tom Calladine** is a detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life, however, is not so successful. Having been married and divorced before the age of twenty-one has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape.

**Ruth Bayliss** is in her mid-thirties, plain-speaking but loyal. Her personal life finally seems to have settled down and she has just returned from maternity leave.

**THE SETTING**

The fictional village of Leesdon on the outskirts of an industrial northern English city. There is little work and a lot of crime. The bane of Calladine’s life is the Hobfield housing estate, breeding ground to all that is wrong with the area that he calls home.

**DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FAVOURITE MYSTERY SERIES NOW**

**Book One: DEAD WRONG**

A bag of severed fingers is found in the playground by a rough housing estate. Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole area erupts in violence. Their boss thinks it’s all down to drug lord Ray Fallon, but Calladine’s instincts say something far nastier is happening on the Hobfield housing estate.

**Book Two: DEAD SILENT**

A body is found in a car crash, but the victim was already dead . . .

**Book Three: DEAD LIST**

An unlikely serial killer with a bucket list of victims . . .

**Book Four: DEAD LOST**

An abandoned cotton mill holds horrific secrets

**Book Five: DEAD & BURIED**

40 years ago something terrible happened in Annie's new house . . .