Welcome to Litsy!

Dear Reader, As you probably know by now, I used to be a high-ranking English copper until my temper got the better of me and I broke a fellow officer's jaw. I was 're- quired to retire'. It's police soft jargon for being sacked. I should've learned from the experience but no, I continue to blow the odd fuse or ten. When my wife was alive she used to rein me in. Now the task has fallen to my new friend Dr Laura Peterson... My four grown up kids, living in Nepal, Japan, Haiti and Los Angeles, still worry me. They'll probably do that till the day I die, but thanks to modern technol- ogy we still feel like a family. Some days it's like they're in the same room with me. One of them - Ellie, the youngest - stayed at Beech Tree right through the summer during which the following events took place. Come September she was meant to be going back to The Sorbonne. I knew she had other plans. I knew I wouldn't like them. But they didn't bother me half as much as the truth behind Easy Prey. *** Easy Prey is a modern English murder mystery in the classic style. An elderly barrister asks Hawk to track down his missing daughter, Teresa. Hawk sets off to find her and soon believes that he'll find her alive and well, not murdered, as he once feared. Until, that is, the sinister Richard Crane falls in behind him, keeping his distance. Is he following Hawk or leading him? Either way, does he have a personal interest in Teresa? Those questions take Hawk on a dangerous journey to the Isle of Lewis where even he, a man who led 35 murder inquiries, is totally unprepared for the truth about the girl he's looking for...