A public body dump, an invisible killer.

When young women are murdered and their bodies posed like marionettes in tourist hotspots around London without a single witness seeing the killer come and go, the case ought to go to a detective with decades of experience investigating serial murder.

Instead, newbie DCI Elsie Mabey lands the case, bringing with her a ragtag team of misfits and rejects. Rather than the Met's finest, they're the "not quite fired" of London policing.

She faces an impossible task: finding an invisible killer while fighting her own invisible illness.


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The Career Killer is a stunning debut crime novel which will keep you turning the page until the very end. Perfect for fans of LJ Ross, Damien Boyd, Cara Hunter and D. S. Butler.

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