'This is just my kind of book' - Ann Cleeves.

The Night Stalker is a compelling crime thriller from Clare Donoghue.

Dead Woman's Ditch. The site of a grisly two-hundred-year-old murder - and a recent hit and run. When a young woman's body is found at the macabre landmark in Somerset's Quantock Hills, DI Mike Lockyer and Sergeant Jane Bennett are called in to investigate.

They find a community gripped by fear and superstition. The locals won't venture out at night, believing there's a man stalking the hills; a phantom cloaked in folklore and legend, keeping the sinister legacy of Dead Woman's Ditch alive.

Confronted by a hostile CID team and a murder victim with close ties to their own squad, Lockyer and Bennett will have to accept what they can't see before they can find what's really there . . .

The Night Stalker follows Trust No One in this compelling crime series.

A page-turning police procedural set in Somerset

About the Author
After ten years in London, working for a City law firm, Clare Donoghue moved back to her home town in Somerset to undertake an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Never Look Back was her first novel and in 2011 she was longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger.

Reviews
This is just my kind of book - clear, unobtrusive writing, a good range of well-defined and credible characters and a terrific sense of place. Nothing flash or showy to distract from the story. It's a novel that one can lose oneself in while reading because the central characters become friends -- Ann Cleeves
A tense police procedural that has its roots in legend and local folklore. I loved it -- Elly Griffiths

Clare Donoghue needs no introduction from me, but this one really is a cracker. If you like your cop stuff set in grim places and wrapped in ancient mystery, then this is totally one for you

-- Paul Finch

Deft plotting, a well-realised and atmospheric Quantocks setting and an involving central mystery - The Night Stalker is a true page-turner that marks the beginning of an intriguing and compelling new
direction for Clare Donoghue and detectives Lockyer and Bennett

-- Chris Ewan
This deftly written novel explores a chilling hit-and-run on the site of a two-hundred-year-old murder in Somerset's Quantock Hills. As detectives Bennett and Lockyer face down a hostile CID team whilst struggling to solve the case, they're also battling personal demons. Creepy, compelling and unputdownable. -- Fiona Cummins
The unravelling of folklore, mystery and murder make for a heart-racing page turner * Daily Mail *



Book Information
ISBN 9781447284741
Author Clare Donoghue
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Pan Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 467g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 24mm