# To Hunt a Killer

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- Book: [To Hunt a Killer](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-mackay/to-hunt-a-killer) ([To Hunt a Killer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-mackay/to-hunt-a-killer.md))
- Authors: [Julie Mackay](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-mackay), [Robert Murphy](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-p-murphy)
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- ISBN: 978-00-0850-747-3
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2022-06-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

*Winner of Best New True Crime Author, CrimeCon UK True Crime Awards 2023**Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger award for non-fiction, Crime Writers’ Association Awards 2023*The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice. BATH, 1984Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has been murdered in a nearby street as she walked home from a club in the early hours. Britain’s biggest manhunt begins. A trail of blood is found leading away from the scene. It’s a rare blood type. But despite a year-long inquiry and 94 arrests, the case is wound down. No one is charged with Melanie’s murder. AVON & SOMERSET POLICE HQ, 2009Detective Sergeant Julie Mackay, a 41-year-old single mother of three who has been overlooked for promotion for years, transfers to the Cold Case Unit. She unearths a file from the original inquiry and becomes hooked by the details: the rare blood type, Bath on a summer’s night, the investigative wrong turns … She takes on the case, and with the help of Melanie’s inspirational mother works tirelessly to rebuild it. This is the true story of how she did it.