Final Frame

For over six months Detective Inspector Mike Croft's life has been dominated by one man, filmmaker and killer Jake Bowen, and the nationwide hunt for him codenamed 'Final Frame'. With three murders and a series of rapes to his name, and no consistent pattern to his deadly work, Bowen has quickly become the most feared man in Britain. Now his latest victim - art student Julia Norman - has been found in a Dorset woodland, her body laid out in a macabre scene which chillingly recreates one of Julia's own self portraits. Mike's only leads are those people once close to Jake - his friend Max Harriman, now himself in prison, and his father Alastair Bowen, whose relationship with his son surely holds the key to this nightmare. But just as Mike begins to focus on Jake's background, so Jake decides it's time to turn his attention towards Mike - and those closest to him...