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Winner of the 2003 Golden Dagger award for non-fiction crime writing at The Crime Writer's Aassociation Awards.
A scientific and legal thriller with the perfect twist. In April 1984, a young British DNA scientist is sexually assaulted in her San Francisco cottage. A year later, and hundreds of miles away, she is brutally murdered. The alleged rapist, an American financial analyst named Paul Frediani is the only suspect. Police and forensic experts, however, fail to link him to the crime and the crime languishes in the "unsolved" file".
Fast forward to 1999 and a keen detective re-opens the case utilising the latest in DNA techniques - techniques pioneered fifteen years ago by the mudered British scientist. Armed with these newly developed techniques the detective finds a vital clue...
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A true scientific and legal thriller with a perfect twist. In April 1984, a young British DNA scientist was sexually assaulted in her San Francisco cottage. A year later, and hundreds of miles away, she was brutally murdered. The alleged rapist, an American financial analyst, was the only suspect. Police and forensic experts, however, failed to link him to the crime; the case was filed "unsolved". Fifteen years later, a detective reopens the case, and using the newest DNA techniques, she finds a vital clue...
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