No Safe Place (DS Peter Gayle thrillers Book 6)

A body is found, horrifically tortured and left outside a women's refuge. She is quickly identified as a resident, the victim of domestic abuse.
DS Pete Gayle's young son is recently dead, his traumatised daughter is going through hell and his station chief is out for his blood - or at least his career - when he is called to a murder scene on a residential street in Exeter.
But the obvious suspect was three hundred miles away, so who did this? And why? The attack was too personal, the scene ...