Death of an Expert Witness

Now a major Channel 5 series'The Queen of Crime.' New York TimesWhen a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where the murderer is lying in wait to strike again . . . 'One of the most spine-chilling writers around.' Observer'The greatest contemporary writer of classic crime.' Sunday Times