Book excerpt: When Detective Inspector Stewart Gardener investigates the discovery of a body in a run-down Victorian property in the suburb of Rawston near Leeds, he knows he's in for a tough time: ashen faced police constables testify to that.Nothing could have prepared him for what lay ahead.The corpse is beyond recognition.Distraught residents, drug dealers, pornographers, and paedophiles add to his list of complications, especially when they're all hiding something.With little time to recuperate, a second body, bearing the same hallmark is found in the grounds of a small church in the center of Leeds.Gardener's already overburdened work schedule is stretched beyond endurance. Over the last six months, children have been going missing: the dead body of the third child having recently been found on waste ground - naked, has instigated a murder hunt.He now knows he needs to find a deranged serial killer, but are the cases linked?With a complex murder case to unravel, the last thing he needs is another problem ... but life is about to deal Stewart Gardener a whole new deck of cards when the next child to go missing is his own...