A bizarre death leads to discoveries about low-tech industrial espionage, but is selling details of your employer's customer base to their rivals a reason for murder? Appearances deceive, and it transpires the victim may have been the victim of a mistaken identity. DI Charlie Priest is content in his work, and his home life shows signs of improving. When his new girlfriend, a former world-class athlete known as La Gazelle, wins her comeback race his happiness overflows. But, when a second mysterious death turns up on their patch, Charlie and his team find themselves under pressure to discover what catalyst motivates the killer. They suspect it might be Charlie himself, and this is confirmed when La Gazelle is kidnapped. Now it's getting personal...

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Stuart Pawson had a career as a mining engineer, followed by a spell working for the probation service, before he became a full-time writer. When not hunched over the word processor likes nothing more than tramping across the moors that often feature in his stories. He is a member of the Murder Squad and the Crime Writers' Association.