Blood Dancing by Jonathan Gash - USED

The dark streets of Manchester's underworld play host to a vigilante of the worst kind. Wanting to rid the city of evil, the assassin constructs a poisoned dart and scours the newspaper headlines for the next victim...Meanwhile, a young prostitute is viciously attacked and Doctor Clare Burtonall is placed in the unenviable position of deciding whether or not to terminate her life support. And as Clare contemplates the girl's future, her boyfriend, Bonn, does what he can to protect the other working girls in the city. He knows that the imminent release from prison of a local pedophile will cause waves on his patch; a patch already besieged by an ever-present undercurrent of unrest and ripples of suppressed anger caused by the girl's attacker still being at large. A dark, gritty thriller, full of suspense, hope and fear, "Blood Dancing" is the latest in the "Clare Burtonall" series of mysteries by the masterful pen of Jonathan Gash.