Last Seen WearingMorse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine . . . The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confirm the bald, simple truth. After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold.

The reader

the investigators realize

And when he arrives in the rundown port

but a secretive order

but sometimes you have to face your fears to get past them

Bony Lizzie

decent and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material

and whether to fight or run

Hermux is drawn into intrigue when his artist friend tackles a taboo subject - cats

Catherine O'Donnell has been killed and Eileen is now out of prison

infamous soldier of fortune

London: Macmillan