When Ruth Butler escaped Texas for a sleepy seaside village in the south of England, it was to rescue her infant daughter from the perverted demon she had married. But after ten peaceful years her daughter Annie disappears.

Not far away, a madman has been trying in vain to turn back time. When Ruth turns out to be a dead ringer for his mother, the voices in his head haunt him day and night. The only way to stop his mother’s nagging is to kill her all over again.

Ruth must rely on her instincts and the ally she finds in an undercover detective who’s in town on unrelated business, but neither can search for Annie’s kidnapper openly. Nevertheless, the trail leads from a faceless body in Annie’s clothes to a smuggler’s cave, where the killer drains his victim’s blood an ounce at a time. But he’s got a special purpose for little Annie. He is patient. He will wait–until her mother comes to save her.

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Deadly Thyme

   Jon set his awful coffee aside. "How can I help? What would you like me to do, sir?"


   Trewe gathered a small stack of what looked like handwritten notes and handed them to Jon. "Mrs. Butler was receiving these, each with a handful of wildflowers, on a regular basis. We need a translation, if you're not doing anything." 


   Jon gathered the notes. "If this is Gaelic, there are likely books in the library ... local historians ... the Internet." 


   Most villages and smaller towns had only a mobile library, but the village of Perrin's Point had a library. Unlike the Tudor Revival architecture of most of the rest of the village, the library was a square of yellow brick and few windows, and ugly as a bald goose.


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