Carpenter Road, Paperback/N. M. Brown

When a young woman swaps coats with a prostitute then vanishes, it marks the start of a mystifying case for Leighton Jones. After traffic officer Leighton is called to an altercation in a used car lot he is confronted by a prostitute rambling on about a girl who stole her coat. He thinks nothing of it. That is until the body of a Jane Doe shows up, matching the prostitute's description. What is the link between the fight in the car lot and the dead woman? Leighton proceeds to gather evidence, which he attempts to pass onto the lead Homicide detective, Slater. However, Slater tells Leighton to back off, and that a suspect has been arrested. Fearing there is more to the case than he first thought, Leighton, is driven to keep digging and soon ends up on the trail of a serial killer. But Leighton might be out of his depth this time...