Sixteen Steps To Heaven.

SIXTEEN STEPS TO HEAVEN is the first book in the DCI Kelly Lynch series.

The bright lights and bustling culture of London is a draw for many seeking a new life, captivated by images of glitz and glamour, fame and fortune, promises of grandeur or simply to escape sour relationships, from families, friends or lovers. But behind that illustrious cloak of magnificence, reality prevails – destitution, gang wars, drugs, prostitution, and finally murder.

DCI Kelly Lynch is the senior investigating officer for the London Serious Crime Investigation Unit which, with its crack team of detectives, was established to investigate some of the more taxing and brutal crimes across all thirty-two boroughs of the nation’s capital.

An early morning call alerts them to the discovery of a female body slumped under bushes in St Mary’s Gardens, Islington. A beautiful woman in her prime mindlessly deprived of life, lying motionless, gazing into space amongst a bed of leaves and mud. The crime scene is clean, no fingerprints, DNA, CCTV footage or even a boot mark, nothing for the LSCIU to dig their claws into, only a fatal head wound and a set of brutal angel wings carved into the body of the victim by a cold calculated killer. When more bodies appear and other stunning blonde-haired, blue-eyed young women vanish without a trace from the city streets, alarm bells ring as to why. The pressure is on to find those women before they too become angels. But will it be too late for some?

The investigation escalates when DCI Lynch finds herself embroiled deeper in the case than anticipated, and it becomes a race for her team to find the killer before more bodies are discovered, before more young women line the sixteen steps to Heaven.