Nemesis (Angela Crossley)

The first in Vincent Cobb’s compellingly dark and deeply disturbing trilogy of Angela Crossley mysteries, Nemesis opens with our heroine as a raw police recruit, immediately plunged into the deep end with a bizarre case of child abduction, in which the only salient witness is an ostensibly psychic young girl… Following Connie’s crude map, Crossley and her team uncover a hellish and tragic scene: the putrefying bodies of no less than seven young children. The case and its aftermath is the beginning of Crossley’s CID; for the young psychic, it is the beginning of the end of anything resembling a normal adolescence. From now on, the guilt will loom over everything Angela Crossley does…But when, several years on, Connie’s visions reveal another newly missing child - this time she’s seen the face of the killer in her mind’s eye. Worse still, the terrified seventeen-year-old is convinced the murderer psychically knows that she’s seen him. And he’s coming to get her - physically. Not for the faint-hearted, Cobb’s soul-racking imagination weaves a truly terrifying web of psychiatric fact, psychic horror and psychological intrigue that explores some of the darkest reaches of the human psyche; of a paedophile psychopath’s bloodlust and of the consequences of childhood cruelty, the aftershock of which will haunt Angela Crossley for the rest of her career.

About the Author

Vincent Cobb was born and educated in Blackpool and spent most of his working life in the travel industry. Eventually he moved to London, where he became 'joint managing director' of Thomson Holiday, the giant package tour company, before moving on to head up Club 1830. His first book, The Package Tour Industry, was published last year and recounts his many personal experiences in the early days of travel - some humorous and some terrifying. The author lives in the Home Counties with his wife, Pat.

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