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Scent of a Killer is the second novel featuring DI Stacy Collins. I'm very keen not to write the crime as a police procedural novel and so prefer to write about how Stacy manages her own demons while hunting the most violent and depraved predators London has to offer. This gives the reader a real insight into how Stacy Collins finds her perpetrator and how far she is prepared to cut through the read tape and push the rule book when killers and rapists have no respect for anyone or anything. This approach has lead Collins into numerous run ins with internal affairs culminating in her currently being investigated for her connections to London's underworld.

In order to write I like to spend a huge amount of time researching the crime itself, the victim and the mind of a serial killer and what drives them. This involves many hours of interviews with police officers, forensic pathologists, SOCO, the study of serial killers and behavioural science.

With so much information to hand it's then my job and passion to bring this information into a fast pace thriller that hopefully has the reader at the edge of their seat.

This time though DI Stacey Collins finds herself hunting down a psychopathic killer. But she is torn between justice and revenge as all the victims had themselves been predators praying on the innocent.

Scent of a Killer is published by Michael Joseph