Publisher's Synopsis
TICK. In the city of Stoke, a teenage girl is murdered in the middle of the day, her lifeless body abandoned in a field behind her school. TOCK. Two days later, a young mother is abducted. She's discovered strangled and dumped in a local park. TIME'S UP. DS Grace Allendale and her team are brought in to investigate, but with a bold killer, no leads and nothing to connect the victims, the case seems hopeless. It's only when a third woman is targeted that a sinister pattern emerges. A dangerous mind is behind these attacks, and Grace realises that the clock is ticking. Can they catch the killer before another young woman dies?