Silvermeadow - Barry Maitland

When DCI Brock and DS Kathy Kolla follow up the sighting of a vicious bank robber they discover that another major investigation is underway at the Silvermeadow mall. A teenage girl has disappeared and Brock and Kolla agree to work with the Essex police on both cases. Then the body of the missing girl is discovered, having apparently been crushed in one of the rubbish compactors in Silvermeadow?s vast basement...
Kathy and Brock meet the different groups of people who inhabit the place: somewhere among them is not only a gang planning a violent robbery, but also a serial killer, stalking young women in the mall ? and others have to die before Kathy and Brock finally trace the clues to an unexpected source.