No sooner has Detective Sergeant Kevin Coupland stepped off the plane from a family holiday than he gets the call that a woman's body has been found on a path beside a recreation park in a smart suburb in Salford. Sharon Mathers suffered a brutal blow to the head following a night out with friends from work. Teamed with DC Ashcroft who has transferred from the Met under a cloud, Coupland struggles to find a motive for the killing when two days later another body is found, this time at the bottom of a footbridge at Salford Station. Could the same person be responsible? “Emma is the latest to join an elite club of authors.” SUNDAY MAIL