A Kind of Wild Justice — Hilary Bonner

He's a barbaric killer. He abducted and tortured an innocent seventeen-year-old girl, brutally raped her, then left her to die. Yet when James Martin O'Donnell stood trial he was acquitted. Twenty years later a chance DNA test makes it clear that there has been a shocking miscarriage of justice. But the law of double jeopardy means O'Donnell cannot be tried again. And when Joanna Bartlett, the crime correspondent who covered the case two decades ago, starts to delve into the past, she is forced to revisit not only the crime she cannot bear to remember, but also the maverick police detective she has forced herself to forget...