{"product_id":"the-otley-murders-9781662515910","title":"The Otley Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe was supposed to be gone forever. Now he's back.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years ago, DCI Oldroyd was the only person who could see the monster hiding behind Adam Blake's charm. Oldroyd proved that Blake was a deadly serial killer, responsible for murdering many innocent people. Having vowed to take revenge on Oldroyd, on a crisp autumn morning Blake escapes from jail...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHours later, in the Yorkshire market town of Otley, a man is found strangled inside the old courthouse. Written in bold black ink across the victim's forehead is a single chilling word: \u003ci\u003evindicta\u003c\/i\u003e--revenge. Oldroyd's blood runs cold when he picks up a call and hears an all-too-familiar voice: \u003ci\u003eI'm coming for you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOldroyd has spent years getting inside the minds of dangerous murderers to protect lives. But with a determined killer closing in, can he catch Blake once more and solve this difficult case, or will Oldroyd be the next to die?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEllis, J. R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJohn R. Ellis has lived in Yorkshire for most of his life and has spent many years exploring Yorkshire's diverse landscapes, history, language and communities. He recently retired after a career in teaching, mostly in further education in the Leeds area. In addition to the Yorkshire Murder Mystery series, he writes poetry, ghost stories and biography. He has completed a screenplay about the last years of the poet Edward Thomas and a work of faction about the extraordinary life of his Irish mother-in-law. He is currently working (slowly!) on his memoirs of growing up in a working-class area of Huddersfield in the 1950s and 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas \u0026 Mercer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500825149714,"sku":"9781662515910","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a06c66f1-f38e-4198-9498-fe2b6a6ec8cb.jpg?v=1753202821","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-otley-murders-9781662515910","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}