Murders Aforethought

A vet is murdered in his driveway, but no one can find a motive, and the killer is still at large. A finance broker is killed in a car crash, and a still corner of England becomes a dangerous place to be. Tasked with discovering what's happening is Willem van Piet, an Anglo-Dutch investigator with his own ways of finding things out. But the people he is up against are ruthless and expert in deception, so it's not until a fourth murder in London that he see his way forward. Then the hunt is on. Murders Aforethought combines mystery and tension as a relentless investigator takes on a set of wily and determined adversaries. It is the third novel in Colin Butler's Water and Fire trilogy. The other two are Death by Drowning and Dangerous Knowledge.