Playing With Bones: Book 2 in the DI Joe Plantagenet crime series

Is the Doll Strangler back? Or is a copycat killer on the loose…?

Singmass Close has a sinister past. Reputedly haunted by the ghosts of children, in the 50s it was the hunting ground of the Doll Strangler, a ruthless killer who was never brought to justice. Now DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether a copycat killer is at work when the strangled body of teenager Natalie Parkes is found in the same close, a mutilated doll lying by her side.

With the recent disappearance of a young female model and an escaped convict at large, this new, horrific murder stretches Joe s team to their limit. But as the bodies start mounting up and Joe s questioning brings him closer to the real strangler, he comes to suspect a shockingly creepy connection between all three cases…