Web of Darkness: Part I - Seeping Darkness

Deacon Vendris is a man fighting the ever evolving, yet always familiar battle to uphold the law. An ex-marine trained on Mars and stationed across known space he safeguarded the lives of his crew mates and helped defend our borders from the more hostile species we've encountered. Now he protects and defends the people of London from those who would do them harm.

A young woman is found brutally murdered in an alley, but none of her personal effects appear to be missing. But if it wasn't a mugging gone bad then why was she killed... and by whom?