The Sniper

DS Mark Pemberton arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Robersthorpe to investigate the death of an elderly, church-going man - but when he sees the crime scene, he can think of only one word - execution. Kenneth Flint, a harmless old man, was shot in the chest, and the gunman left no trace behind him.

As Pemberton and his team begin to dig, Flint's unsavoury character comes to the surface. The villagers kept their children away from him, so it looks as if this a revenge killing.

Then two similar murders occur in different parts of the country and it seems certain the killer is on a mission. With no forensic evidence to work with it's like looking for a needle in a haystack - until something as small as an orange pip proves the sniper's undoing.

The Sniper was originally published in July 2001.

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