Dancing On The Grave

Book One in the Lakes crime thriller trilogy introducing CSI Grace McColl and DC Nick Weston A sniper with a mission…a young cop with nothing to lose…a CSI with everything to prove…a teenage girl with a terrifying obsession… In one of the most beautiful corners of England something very ugly is about to take place. There’s a killer on the loose in the Lake District hills, and the calm of an English summer is shattered.For newly qualified crime-scene investigator, Grace McColl, it’s both the start of a nightmare and the chance to prove herself after a mistake that cost a life.For Detective Nick Weston, recently transferred from London, it’s an opportunity to recover his nerve after a disastrous undercover operation that left him for dead.And for a lonely, loveless teenage girl, Edith, it’s the start of a twisted fantasy—one she never dreamed might come true.Formerly published as a standalone novel, DANCING ON THE GRAVE becomes Book One of the Lakes Thriller Trilogy. Book Two, BONES IN THE RIVER is also now published, and Book Three is a work in progress. All three stories can be read separately and all feature the same lead characters, CSI Grace McColl and Detective Nick Weston. One reviewer has described them as "intriguing alone and compelling together".CSI Grace McColl. She is forty, amicably divorced from her husband, Max. Born in the Lakes, she was always a keen photographer, who trained as a crime scene investigator after her photographs were used to help a guilty man go free and he later caused a woman’s death. Grace still feels she has much to make amends for. She hides her emotions behind a calm façade that can make her sometimes appear cold. She lives in Orton village, with a Weimaraner called Tallie.Detective Nick Weston. He is thirty-two, living with his partner, Lisa, a hairdresser, with whom he has a volatile relationship, and a young daughter, Sophie. Nick worked in Firearms in Manchester and then undercover for the Met in London. After he was compromised and almost beaten to death on an undercover op, Lisa persuaded him to transfer up to her native Cumbria, where he is considered an outsider among his colleagues. Nick is still coping with some of the mental and physical after-effects of his experiences.