[sufue]

An odd non-Friday Joffe freebie, supposedly for today only??? Odd not being on Friday, that is, not that that book itself is odd . Which I wouldn't know, since it's a series I haven't read.

Spite Your Face, Carol Wren #1, by Emmy Ellis
(previously published as Biding Their Time)
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5XV67Q3
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C5XV67Q3

Spoiler:

Meet Detective Carol Wren. She has abandonment issues — but she never gives up on a case. Yorkshire born and bred, and backed up by her sergeant Dave Waite. His wife has left him — but Carol is fiercely loyal to her partner.

The call comes early on Saturday morning. Devoted wife and mother-of-two Sue Cuttersby has been brutally hacked to death in her pretty suburban garden.

Detective Carol Wren can’t find anyone with a bad word to say about Sue. But someone hated the unassuming housewife enough to hit her three times on the back of the head with a claw hammer, leaving her to die in agony.

This murder was personal — and unusually vicious.

Sue’s marriage to Gary, a wealthy businessman, appears to have been happy. But Carol discovers that appearances can be deceptive.

The following day, a second body is found. Dumped on the premises of the local vet.

Carol finds herself on the trail of a depraved serial killer, the last person you’d expect . . .