[Detectives Ruskin & Ashley 03] • Death by Torture

This gruesome murder mystery is a daunting challenge for detectives Ruskin & Ashley

Found in an old converted mill, these murders were acts of pure aggression – it was something akin to Jack the Ripper – the bodies had been arranged execution style, laid out on the rug with their limbs arranged in a hog-tie behind their backs.On inspection to the underside of the bodies, the detectives were left with a nasty shock. A seeping wound spread from one ear to another, much akin to a Cheshire smile, and the eyeballs had been beaten so much that they were as black as a mid-winter's night sky. The second body didn't even have much of a face to speak of, more a large, bloody battlefield of flesh, bone, and gore.

But the detectives were in for a bigger shock, for it wasn't the method of the kill that was the most heartless thing waiting for them at the crime scene, but rather the choice of victim. Their limbs were frail, bony, and bruised, wrinkled skin clung desperately to the bones that indicated the skeleton structure. The victims both appeared to be pensioners, at least in their seventies.

Mike was usually one to be calm, reserved, and sometimes weirdly cheerful at crime scenes, but this was different. His roar sliced through the room's silence.

“What the fuck!? I'm going to find these bastards, and I'm going to make sure they're being fed through a straw for the rest of their lives!”

“A gripping story full of twists and turns”