Clear Cut (Anna Travis #3) by Lynda La Plante

From the Top Ten bestselling author of Above Suspicion and The Red Dahlia comes an even more terrifying journey for DCI Anna Travis and DCI James Langton. Not one, but two murderers send them running for their lives . . .

Dedicated, intuitive and utterly obsessive, Langton is ruthless in his pursuit of a gang of illegal immigrants, killers of a young prostitute. When he is almost fatally injured by one of them, it falls upon Anna to put her own life on hold as she nurses him through his intense frustration and desperation to bring his would-be murderer to justice.

Then Anna is assigned to a different murder enquiry, the brutal killing of a quiet, studious woman whose body was discovered by her daughter returning home from school. A senseless attack with no obvious motive or immediate suspect. Until, chillingly, this case becomes unexpectedly linked with Langton's and Anna finds herself under similar threat from the gang who almost destroyed his career and his life.

Private and professional demands collide as Anna and Langton, her boss and her lover, embark on a terrifying journey, threatening violent consequences for both of them.