LIVING DEATH

DS Katie Maguire goes undercover to break a drug ring. The girl who teetered out of the doorway was exactly who they were looking for. Maguire and her team are stretched to the limit. A gang of dognappers are terrorising Cork, and the city's drug trade is at an all-time high. Now they have a missing girl to find too, and all in the glare of the media spotlight. As Katie closes in on the truth, she realises that the three cases might be connected, but with every second she spends investigating, the clock ticks on for the missing girl, trapped in a living death. Skip the very graphic details about dog fighting if you need to and don't complain about the sex in the books of this foremost horror writer, the popular Graham Masterton. 439pp, paperback.