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...Read by Janet Mc Teer. When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder: horrifically mutilated, severed in half & drained of blood, her death is a terrifying mirror image of a 1940s case in Los Angeles knows as ' The Black Dahlia'. That case was never solved, but now Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this 'copycat killer', dubbed ' The Red Dahlia' from the flower his victim wore in her hair. But there are no suspects & a media frenzy is spiralling out of control. Anna needs help from the brilliant & volatile Detective Chief Inspector James Langton, but the frictions of their romantic relationship are complicating the case. A second girl is murdered & as Anna & Langton close in on the prime suspect, they uncover a terrifying web of sadistic sexual evil & a family's murderous secrets.