Solace House — Joy Ellis

An isolated house with a terrible past. Is history repeating itself for the new family living there?Holly Stewart moved into Solace House wanting a fresh start for her and her family. She knew the property was cheap because a tragic murder had taken place there, but she didn't know its full ghastly history.Now, her husband's lost his job, the children are bullied at school, and someone's prowling around the garden at night. Someone who wants them gone.Detective Jackman wants to help. Instead he's pulled into a twenty-year-old cold case: the gruesome murder of a young woman whose head was never found. A new witness comes forward, claiming to have crucial evidence on what really happened that night.Days later, a group of litter-pickers uncover black sacks containing dismembered human limbs. Attending the scene, Detective Marie Evans is shocked to see a strange symbol carved into the victim's flesh: the same symbol found on the headless girl all those years ago.The murders must be connected. But why has the killer struck again - after twenty years?As the threats to the Stewart family escalate, Jackman must choose between helping people in the present and solving the crimes of the past.