Blood and Honey (DI Joe Faraday, #6)

The discovery of a headless corpse in the sea beneath the cliffs is a grim beginning for Detective Inspector Joe Farraday's latest investigation on the Isle of Wight. Identifying the body proves impossible, but the disappearance of a young delivery driver who's fallen foul of a local nursing-home owneran ex-soldier with a violent tempergives the team an important lead. Meanwhile, Detective Constable Winter's life lurches from crisis to crisis as he becomes involved with a beautiful young prostitute at the center of an investigation of a powerful local businessman. Winter's problems are further compounded by a series of vicious and debilitating migraines, the implications of which are alarming. For Winter, it's beginning to look as if time is running outThe sixth novel in this highly praised series of police proceduralsand the best yet.