Chris Simms is getting better and better. A chilling thriller, this will have you leaving the light on when you climb in to bed. When a woman’s body is found on Saddleworth Moor it is assumed she has been killed by a mysterious big black cat, that has been spotted out on the moor, but when another victim turns up in central Manchester, murdered in the same way, things take a more sinister turn. Simms really knows how to set the spine tingling.
The body of a woman with her throat ripped out is found on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester. She is discovered in an area where several sightings of a mysterious large black cat have been made.
When analysis shows that hairs caught under the victim's nails are those of a panther, it is assumed that the animal has killed its first human prey.
But then a man DI Jon Spicer is investigating as part of an entirely different case is murdered in exactly the same way. Only this time the body is found in a secluded car park - a popular gay rendezvous far closer to the city centre.
Soon DI Spicer finds himself hunting a killer dubbed The Monster of the Moor, a creature whose stealth and savagery strike terror into the local population and way beyond it to the whole of the north west . . .
Chris Simms is married with four children and works as a freelance copywriter. His acclaimed novel, 'Killing the Beasts' was selected as a Best Crime book for 2005 by SHOTS magazine. His second novel, 'Pecking Order', was selected as a Best British crime novel by DEADLY PLEASURES magazine. Chris Simms lives in Marple, near Manchester.
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