John Hunter mysteries

John Hunter, veteran detective of Serious Crimes, is targeted by a panty-sniffing, head carving serial killer, who for thirteen years has been coldly planning a diabolical revenge. Hunter and his family and friends are subjected to the shocking attentions of the highly intelligent, cold-blooded pervert, who has the police force baffled and the last act planned out to the last terrifying detail.

DI John Hunter likes a case with good scene of crime evidence and a clear motive. Here there is neither the one nor the other, and there are literally hundreds of suspects when nurses are murdered in a large hospital and their clitorises are surgically removed. Is it sexual, racial, vengeful, or none of those. By heading in the wrong direction he puts Jane in mortal danger.

DI John Hunter is not confronted every day with the corpse of a senior Government minister, nor that of an alien. Here he has two in one. What seems at first to be a 'nutcase' murder is anything but. With the investigation hampered by need-to-know, the personal intervention of the PM and interference by Special Branch it becomes one of John's most difficult cases, with the strangest outcome

Faced with one of his 'Thursday' murders John Hunter is on to a hiding to nothing, but that one goes on the back burner while he investigates the murder of a senior police official, Commander Freddie Sloane, who headed up Vice. Someone out there is determined to destroy John, and as a first step his wife Jane is arrested for the murder. Her pistol fired the shots.