Double You

Fat, Forties, Frustrated and in a going-nowhere relationship, DCI Rose Huntingford is thinking more and more about throwing in the towel to reclaim her life before it’s too late. She fantasises about a proper job, where she could vegetate between coffee and lunch breaks and never again have to view a corpse or be rudely awoken by a phone call well before dawn.

Then two sadistic murders are committed within hours – very different methods of dispatch, but both victims are identical twins. Rose, herself a fraternal twin, faces an uphill struggle to convince her colleagues the cases are connected. Having proved her point, she and her team are exposed to a regime of deceit, death and danger, where few people are who or what they seem.

Vital clues lay buried in the past and when a young member of her squad is kidnapped, it becomes a race against time for Rose to identify the pivotal motive behind an ever-increasing body count – and to ensure that count does not increase. An international network trading lucratively in human lives want Rose dead and don’t much care who gets in the way, but - wary on all levels of whom she can trust - she is willing to risk everything, including her life, to rescue the girl and close the case.

The chief perpetrator under lock and key, Rose faces a disciplinary board - but is at least content in the knowledge that justice has been done and all loose ends are tied up.

How wrong she is.