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New book coming soon: Decoy

New book coming soon: Decoy

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Apr 11, 2024
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Decoy tells how a group of 12 rookie female police officers caught one of Britain’s most-wanted men in an undercover sting in 1979.

By January 1979, detectives were at their wits’ ends.

For nearly two years a man had been preying on women in the city of Bristol, UK, attacking at will.

Women who survived the sex attacks were able to provide officers with a …

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