Shining Skull

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Little Marcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 & when he never returned home his grieving family assumed the worst. Then thirty years later teenage singing star Leah Wakefield disappears & DI Wesley Peterson has reason to suspect that the same kidnapper is responsible. & another abductor is at work in the area
- a man who tricks blonde women into a bogus taxi & cuts off their hair. Has Leah fallen prey to the man the newspapers call ' The Barber' or has she suffered a more sinister fate? But then Marcus Fallbrook returns from the dead. & when DNA evidence confirms his identity the investigation takes a new twist. Meanwhile archaeologist Neil Watson's gruesome task of exhuming the dead from a local churchyard yields a mystery of its own when a coffin is found to contain one corpse too many
- a corpse that may be linked to a strange religious sect dating back to Regency times. Wesley has his hands full elsewhere
- slowly Marcus Fallbrook begins to recover memories that Wesley hopes will lead him to cunning & dangerous murderer. But he is about to discover that the past can be a very dangerous place indeed.