Former Metropolitan Police firearms officer Sergeant Jessica Raker is on a mission to bring down a brutal organized crime group operating in the idyllic Ribble Valley.The OCG's leader, Mags Horsefield, is determined to make one of the members pay for getting caught by the police, using her contacts to make sure he's released from prison early . into her waiting clutches.Jess knows Mags from their school days, but their lives now couldn't be more different. A fire at a local mill puts Jess on the tail of Mags' OCG; is this her opportunity to catch the Ribble Valley's most wanted criminal? The battle lines have been drawn, but when Jess is called to an incident at Wolf Fell Hall, a series of terrifying events follow . 'With stomach-churning violence, blood and guts, and high-wire tension' Booklist 'The build-up of tension is ominous and terrifying . Readers who like their police procedurals gritty, violent, twisty, and tense will love it' Booklist Starred Review of Death at Dead Man's Stake.