Nemesis

The first in Vincent Cobb?s compellingly dark and deeply disturbingtrilogy of Angela Crossley mysteries, Nemesis opens with our heroineas a raw police recruit, immediately plunged into the deep end with abizarre case of child abduction, in which the only salient witness isan ostensibly psychic young girl? Following Connie?s crude map,Crossley and her team uncover a hellish and tragic scene: theputrefying bodies of no less than seven young children. The case andits aftermath is the beginning of Crossley?s CID, for the youngpsychic, it is the beginning of the end of anything resembling anormal adolescence. From now on, the guilt will loom over everythingAngela Crossley does?But when, several years on, Connie?svisions reveal another newly missing child - this time she?s seen theface of the killer in her mind?s eye. Worse still, the terrifiedseventeen-year-old is convinced the murderer psychically knows thatshe?s seen him. And he?s coming to get her - physically. Notfor the faint-hearted, Cobb?s soul-racking imagination weaves a trulyterrifying web of psychiatric fact, psychic horror and psychologicalintrigue that explores some of the darkest reaches of the humanpsyche, of a paedophile psychopath?s bloodlust and of the consequences of childhood cruelty, the aftershock of which will haunt AngelaCrossley for the rest of her career. SynopsisPolice officerAngela Crossley knows that she is out of her depth when the fragilebut psychic Connie has a vision that enables her to lead the Police to a burial site of the serial killer\'s young female victims. Severalbodies are recovered, including the little girl the police have beensearching for. Unfortunately, the deeply sensitive Connie suffers atraumatic collapse and is hospitalised in a psychiatric unit for anumber of years while Angela blames herself for the mental breakdowntheir friendship deepens. Angela, goes to University gaining a degreein Criminology returning to rejoin the Police Force she is promoted to Detective Sergeant. The killer from years earlier has never beenapprehended, but the psychiatrist caring for Connie, a Doctor PaulSimmons, informs Angie she should not assume the killings will havestopped - He will have discovered a new hiding place...