A vicious rape, a woman left traumatised. A previous victim is quickly identified. Then more come forward.
A serial rapist is attacking the women of Exeter in their beds at night.
There are fingerprints and DNA but no matches, CCTV but no identification.
With the press clamouring for answers DS Pete Gayle and his team must work through a maze of conflicting evidence to identify and arrest the offender before he can commit another brutal attack.
Raised in a farming family in Northamptonshire, England, Jack Slater had a varied career before settling in biomedical science. He has worked in farming, forestry, factories and shops as well as spending five years as a service engineer.
Widowed by cancer at 33, he remarried in 2013, in the Channel Islands, where he worked for several months through the summer of 2012.
He has been writing since childhood, in both fiction and non-fiction.
No Compassion is his eighth crime novel in the chart-topping DS Peter Gayle mystery series.