The Savage Gorge

It started with a scream of terror from the desperate girl...

This is the opening of Colin Forbes' gripping new novel. Tweed and Paula take over the brutal murder case of two attractive women from plodding Chief Inspector Reebeck. A clue leads them to a remote rural county controlled by 'Pit Bull', human and dangerous. They meet his weird family: his shrewd, unstable 'daughter', Margot; his clever daughter Sable; his well-mannered observant son, Lance; the grim housekeeper, Mrs Shipton and Marius Lepke, a huge Cajun brought over by Pit Bull from New Orleans.

Tweed explores the peculiar local village and meets the resident gossip, Mrs Grout. He and Paula visit the strange town of Gunners Gorge, bloodstained by Cromwell long ago. More murders are committed. 'Not the work of a serial killer,' Tweed insists. 'I sense something much bigger...'

Is the key isolated Findel Square, hidden in the heart of London, HQ of OTRANTO, oil giant owned by devious womanizer Neville Guile? Tweet and Paula continue their dangerous race to solve the diabolical mystery. But time is not on their side...