When Mandy Morgan sets herself up as a dog walker, the last thing she expects her dogs to find buried deep in the earth is a human hand, followed by a skull, and then the top part of an arm, each with a clue leading them to the next bone and perhaps the next. After three bones have been found, Mandy decides to take them to the police, where she meets the very attractive Detective Inspector Jay Sutherland.
After forensic scrutiny, the bones are found to belong to Elizabeth Marks, a woman who has been missing for eight years, a deep crack on the skull pointing to her having suffered a violent death. As a concerned member of the public and in order to find closure for the family of the missing woman, Mandy works closely with Detective Inspector Jay Sutherland to follow all the clues, find all the bones, and hopefully find the killer.
Meanwhile, Mandy’s dad is suspected of having an affair, a fellow dog walker is behaving strangely, and an ex comes back on the scene. Will Mandy and the Detective Inspector be able to bring all the little pieces of the puzzle together and find out who is guilty and who is not? Oh, and maybe find love in the process?
Debbie Chase (married name Debbie Spink) was born in Emsworth in Hampshire in 1959 but has lived in West Yorkshire since 1979. She is the eldest of five children (two sisters and two brothers) and has many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews, aunties, uncles and cousins, having come from a very large family. She has been married since 1984 and has one daughter, Lara, and three cats Ruby, Teddy and Maurice.
She has always been a reader and has enjoyed writing since school. Her proudest moment being when she achieved an A+ for an essay! She has had many short stories and poems for adults and children published in books and magazines. She has written five self-published books, the first being part fact/part fiction and called “You to Me Are Everything.” The second book based on a real-life pet-sitting job is called “The Confessions of a Pet Sitter (from the Pet’s Point of View), and the third, the sequel to that book, “What a Catastrophe (Teddy’s Tale). The fourth book is a book of poems, “I Wasn’t There,” and the fifth is a murder mystery, “Whatever Happened to George England.”