Dark Pathway (The DCI Sophie Allen crime mysteries Book 1)

A young woman’s body lies on a deserted footpath in a Dorset seaside town late on a chill, damp November night. She has been stabbed through the heart. A simple murder with a simple solution? Not when her mother is found strangled the next morning, followed by the death of another young woman in a neighbouring town later that evening. The complexities of the case grow as DCI Sophie Allen and her team begin to realise that each victim had secret histories kept hidden from the world, histories that involved violence and intimidation. There’s an obvious suspect but could he be too obvious? Could someone else be lurking in the shadows, someone of savage violence looking for a warped revenge?
Dark Pathway probes the frightening and silent world of domestic abuse and intimidation, where violence rules and young hopes are destroyed. DCI Allen, head of the newly formed Violent Crime Unit, is pushed to the limit in her first major case as the team's head.