num_pages: 352
description: Catching him will make her career - and change her forever. August 1999On the hottest day of the year Assistant Commissioner Florence Lovelady attends the funeral of Larry Glassbrook the convicted murderer she arrested thirty years earlier. A master carpenter and funeral director Larry imprisoned his victims alive in the caskets he made himself. Clay effigies found entombed with their bodies suggested a motive beyond the worst human depravity.June 196913-year- old Patsy Wood has been missing for two days the third teenager to disappear in as many months. New to the Lancashire police force and struggling to fit in WPC Lovelady is sent to investigate an unlikely report from school children claiming to have heard a voice calling for help. A voice from deep within a recent grave.August 1999As she tries to lay her ghosts to rest Florence is drawn back to the Glassbrooks' old house in the shadow of Pendle Hill where she once lodged with the family. She is chilled by the discovery of another effigy - one bearing a remarkable resemblance to herself. Is the killer still at large? Is Florence once again in terrible danger? Or this time could the fate in store be worse than even her darkest imaginings?
language: English
title: The Craftsman
publisher: Trapeze