It could happen in your town, in your street or on your doorstep. Would you watch and try to help or would you run? Set in a rural village in North Yorkshire criminal associates from John Duffield’s distant past seek recompense for his neglected debts. Duffield is brutally murdered which is witnessed by innocent bystander, Kate. The hunt begins for Kate as the criminal group attempts to eliminate her in order to protect themselves. A police enquiry team investigates Duffield’s death and DI Rachel Barnes is called upon to rise to the challenge of protecting Kate, in a game of strategy, where lives hang in the balance and mistakes are harshly punished.

Andrew Clark is an author who lives and works in rural North Yorkshire having a life-long connection to the county. He qualified as a Registered General Nurse and after seven years in nursing then joined the Police Service, in which he completed a successful career specialising in covert policing. Andrew’s crime fiction offers an honest and unique insight based upon personal experience.