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A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By theSunday Timesnumber one bestselling author ofThe Murder Bag.

On New Years Day,a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away.

The murder weapon a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered leads Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yards Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man.

But the Slaughter Man has done his time, and is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game?

And was the murder of a happy family a mindless killing spree, a grotesque homage by a copycat killer or a contract hit designed to frame a dying man?

All Max knows is that he needs to find the missing child and stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family or finds his way to his own front door

Even the happiest of families have black, twisted secrets that someone is ready to kill for

Tony Parsons left school at sixteen and his first job in journalism was at theNew Musical Express. His first journalism after leaving theNMEwas when he was embedded with the Vice Squad at 27 Savile Row, West End Central. The roots of the DC Max Wolfe series started here.

Since then he has become an award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into more than forty languages.The Murder Bag, the first novel in the DC Max Wolfe series, went to number one on first publication in the UK. All of the DC Max Wolfe novels have beenSunday Timestop five bestsellers.

Tony lives in London with his wife, his daughter and their dog, Stan.