Dark Flight: Lin Anderson

A chilling ritual is being acted out by a sadistic killer in Dark Flight, the fourth novel in Lin Anderson`s forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod.

Six-year-old Stephen Devlin has vanished, his mother and grandmother horrifically murdered. At the scene of the devastating crime, forensic scientist Rhona Macleod finds a chilling African talisman, made from the bones of a child.

Working with DS Michael McNab, Rhona joins a task force that has been formed in a desperate attempt to track down the missing child before it`s too late. As the case builds momentum, it becomes clear the killer`s motive was linked to the fact that the boy and his mother had recently returned from Nigeria.

When further victims are found, Rhona realizes she must decipher the talisman`s meaning if they are to have any hope of finding Stephen before he becomes the next link in the killer`s chain...