When a man dies from what appears to be a random snake bite in a quiet country village, the hospital seeks the expertise of wildlife vet Clara Benning. But the post mortem reveals this was no freak accident. Clara finds herself drawn into the hunt for a brutally inventive killer, putting herself in grave danger.

One rain-drenched afternoon, consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton makes a gruesome discovery. Deep in the peat soil of her field, she is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a gaping hole where her heart has been brutally removed and three rune marks etched into her skin.

10-year-old Tom and his family have just moved to a small town perched on the crest of the moors. But troubles begin when Tom sees a mysterious child lurking around the nearby churchyard.

A savage murder on London's streets, 120 years to the day since Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim. A crime with all the hallmarks of a copycat killer. Detective Constable Lacey Flint has never worked a murder case. Now she must outwit a brilliant psychopath whose infamous role model has never been found.

When a Cambridge student dramatically attempts to take her own life, DI Mark Joesbury realises that the university has developed an unhealthy record of young people committing suicide in extraordinary ways. Against huge personal misgivings, Joesbury sends young policewoman DC Lacey Flint to investigate.

This heart hammering, twisty thriller will keep you up all night
Barney has seen things. Things no child should see... and he knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood, and leave it on a Thames beach. There will be no clues for detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury to find. There will be no warning about who will be next. There will be no good reason for young policewoman Lacey Flint to become involved... And no chance that she can stay away."

Something's in the water... A chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Like This, For Ever.
Ex-Detective Lacey Flint has quit the police for a safer, quieter life. Or that's what she thinks.
Living alone on a houseboat, she is trying and failing to get over the love of her life, undercover Detective Mark Joesbury. But Mark is missing in action and impossible to forget. And danger won't leave Lacey alone.
When she finds a body floating in the river, wrapped in white burial cloths, she can't resist asking questions. Who is this woman...

A tense, twisty, up-all-night, stand-alone psychological thriller from this bestselling author.

Three confessions. Two liars. One killer.

Three friends have had their lives ripped apart. Their pasts haunt them. They are consumed by guilt. And they don't trust anyone. Not even themselves.

But in their small, isolated, island community, trust is the only way to survive.

Now a child has gone missing.

And no one knows who to believe...

He loves her. He loves her not.

He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks.

But despite his conviction, he's always stuck to his story - he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate, and more importantly, to write his story.

At first Maggie, a barrister and true-crime writer, is reluctant to even acknowledge his requests, ignoring his letters. But this is a very charismatic and persuasive man, good-looking and intelligent.

Eventually even she can't resist his lure . . .

But she's seen the killer's face, and he's seen hers - and he won't rest until he's eliminated the last witness to his crime .