First Wife Twice Removed Author:Clare Curzon A young mother is found dead at the foot of the stairs in her Thames Valley flat. Is it an accident, or is it murder? Days later, when a girl's body is discovered locked in a chest inside an abandoned van, there can be little doubt about the circumstances surrounding this death. — Linked at first only by a parcel, investigations of these sepa... more »rate deaths develop in sinister parallel. Are both women, as a cynic suggests, victims of soured relationships, callously off-loaded by their partners, first by rejection and then by murder?
Detective-Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his team from the Thames Valley Police Force follow up the tenuous local clues while Detective Inspector Mott travels to the Netherlands to reconstruct the story of an orphaned country girl lured to Amsterdam and ultimately murdered in England« less