Hangman by Daniel Cole

Hangman by Daniel Cole

A detective with no one to trust

A killer with nothing to lose

Detective Emily Baxter is still reeling from the Ragdoll case, and from the disappearance of her friend William "Wolf" Fawkes. Despite her reluctance to jump into another gruesome case, she's summoned to a meeting of a new FBI/CIA/UK law enforcement task force in New York. There, she is presented with photographs of the latest copycat murder: a body contorted into a familiar pose, strung up from the Brooklyn Bridge, the word "BAIT" carved deep into its chest.

As the media pressure intensifies, Baxter is ordered to assist with the investigation and attend the scene of another murder, again with a victim inscribed with a word--"PUPPET."

The murders continue to grow in spectacle and depravity on both sides of the Atlantic, and the team helplessly plays catch-up. Baxter must shake off the grief and fear that have paralyzed her for the last year so she can stop another terrible killer before it's too late.

Daniel Cole, a thirty-three-year-old paramedic, has made a name for himself as a best-selling author with his first, Ragdoll (Mueco de Trapo), a story that began as a movie and is now being developed into a television series. At the time, more than thirty countries have acquired translation rights, and the work has already been a commercial success in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Holland. This first novel appears to have completed one of the author's unfinished tasks. «Senta la necesidad a terminar esta historia y no dejar que polvo continue accumulando debajo de mi cama,» he admits. I believe I wrote it with a sense of conceit, with the intention of creating something that I would have enjoyed reading: a gripping story with characters who wind up being almost my friends».

Cole lives in Bournemouth and is working on a new book. Follow the author on Twitter at @Daniel_P_Cole.