Steven Pacey

Pickpockets, pimps, and prostitutes: All in a day's work for the city constable — until work moves too close to home.... When Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, discovers his former housemaid murdered in a particularly sickening manner, his professional and personal lives move perilously close. Circumstances seem to conspire against him, and more murders follow. Soon the city fathers cast doubt on his capability, and he is forced to seek help...