<p><b>''SUPER-SMART AND HIGHLY ORIGINAL'' - Doug Johnstone<br>''BRILLIANT AND DEEPLY EVOCATIVE'' - Graham Bartlett<br>''AN EXCITING START TO A NEW SERIES'' - Patricia Gibney<br>''A WRITER AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME'' - Robert Rutherford<br><br>The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to keep it hidden from his peers and the criminals he''s investigating.</b><br><br><b>THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE''S NO ESCAPE.<br><br></b>DCI Jack Parker has faced down hardened villains and raving, drug-addled lunatics. He''s disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of a loved one''s death more times than he can remember.<br><br>With a serial killer stalking the Newcastle streets and one of his closest colleagues lying in the mortuary following a hit and run he thinks things are about as tough as they''ve ever been. But he should know that trouble always comes