Famous killers have fan clubs.
Hamish Wolfe is no different. Locked up for the rest of his life for the abduction and murder of three young women, he gets countless adoring letters every day. He’s handsome, charismatic and very persuasive. His admirers are convinced he’s innocent, and that he’s the man of their dreams.
Who would join such a club?
Maggie Rose is different. Reclusive and enigmatic; a successful lawyer and bestselling true-crime writer, she only takes on cases that she can win.
Hamish wants her as his lawyer, he wants her to change his fate. She thinks she’s immune to the charms of a man like this. But maybe not this time . . .
A cold nugget in her heart told her that she hadn’t escaped after all, that five, ten, twenty years weren’t enough, that there was no escape and that the day would come when he would find her.”
Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a young woman is brutally murdered. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There’s just one survivor.
She’s seen the killer’s face – and he’s seen hers. Now he won’t rest until he’s eliminated the only witness to his crime.
Alone, scared, trusting no one, she goes on the run. But the biggest danger of all could be where she least expects to find it.
Florence Lovelady’s career was made when she convicted coffin-maker, Larry Glassbrook, of a series of child murders 30 years ago. Like something from our worst nightmares, the victims were buried…ALIVE.
“And then she discovered something even more terrifying than that she was trapped in a coffin. She wasn’t alone.”
Larry confessed to the crimes; it was an open and shut case. But now he’s dead and events from the past start to repeat themselves. Did she get it wrong all those years ago? Or is there something much darker at play?
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Felicity Lloyd, a young scientist, has accepted a research assignment on one of the most remote places on earth – the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. She thinks there, at last, she’ll be safe from her estranged husband, Freddie. He’s recently been released from prison and he’ll stop at nothing to find her.
As the summer season draws to a close, Felicity is starting to relax. Once winter sets in, the cruise ships stop visiting and no one can get to South Georgia. There’s one more ship to dock, any day now, and Felicity can’t rest until she knows whether or not Freddie is on board.
Well, spoiler alert, he is.
The Split starts as a classic chase thriller, with Freddie pursuing Felicity across the frozen wastes of this Antarctic island. She knows South Georgia well, and has had time to plan her escape, but she hasn’t allowed for his determination and stubbornness being as great as her own. In one of the most dangerous environments on earth, Freddie and Felicity finally come face to face – and the outcome is one no one could have expected.
A golden summer, and six talented young friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures. From wealthy, privileged families, they all have places at top universities and are dreaming of fabulous careers. Felix wants to run his own company, Dan is heading for the top of academia and Xavier plans to make millions in the City. Talitha will take over her father’s law firm whilst Amber has ambitions to be Prime Minister. And then, the night before their A level results, a daredevil game goes horribly wrong. A mother and two young children are killed.
Stunned and scared, the group see their plans and dreams slipping away. They will lose everything, become pariahs, spend years in prison. Unless…
Megan, possibly the smartest, most talented of all, offers to take the blame alone, leaving the others free to build their brilliant futures. In return, they each agree to a ‘favour’ payable on her release from prison.
One favour each – anything she asks, whenever she asks it.
What can possibly go wrong?
Anna Brown is building a new life for herself in St Abel’s Chapel in the English lake district. Quiet for most of the year, the village transforms during the last two weeks in October, when hundreds of visitors arrive for The Ingathering. Celebrations focus upon a mysterious evangelical church on the outskirts of the village. Relying upon the income from these two busy weeks, the villagers respect the church’s privacy. No one interferes.
Anna’s curiosity is piqued when she befriends teenager Constance, who seems deeply afraid. The Ingathering, Anna learns, involves young church members making their way through the Hell House shortly after their 16th birthday. This series of theatrical tableau is designed to alert young people to the consequences of sin. But rather than a shocking if ultimately harmless ‘wake-up call’, Constance fears the Hell House is far more sinister. She believes that each year one teenager taking part will die and that she is this year’s intended victim.
Desperate to help Constance, Anna is fighting demons of her own. She left a dark past behind when she moved to St Abel’s Chapel. And, in this strange and often frightening new place, is there anyone she can trust?
When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames, off-duty police officer Lacey Flint is there to prevent disaster.
DCI Mark Joesbury has been expecting this. Monitoring a complex network of ‘dark web’ sites, Joesbury and his team have spotted a new terrorist threat from the extremist, women hating group known as ‘incels’ or ‘involuntary celibates’. Joesbury’s team are trying to infiltrate the ring of power at its core, but the dark web is built for anonymity, and the incel army is vast.
Pressure mounts when the team learn the snatched baby incident is just the first in a series of violent attacks designed to terrorise women. Worse, the leaders of the movement seem to have singled out Lacey as the embodiment of everything they hate, placing her in acute danger.
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Florence Lovelady is the most senior serving policewoman in Britain. She is also battling severe mental health problems. In her own words, she is arguably insane. Her meteoric career and her insanity had the same root cause: the hunt for, and arrest of, a vicious child killer thirty years earlier. Florence was hailed as a hero for putting local businessman Larry Glassbrook behind bars but she paid a heavy price. She left Sabden, the small town in the north-west of England where Larry’s unspeakable crimes had taken place and vowed never to return.
But Larry, serving a whole life sentence, has other plans. On his deathbed, he contacts Florence one last time, and provides evidence of more child murders. Not down to him this time, or so he says, these children lost their lives recently, and the town is planning a cover up. Larry believes Florence is the only police officer in England with the skills, and the courage, to tackle the darkness that never left his hometown.
Will Florence stick to her guns and stay well clear? Or will Larry’s lure prove too strong, even from beyond the grave?
Olive Anderson, wife of Michael Anderson MP, has gone missing. Late in the evening, in a heavy snow-storm, Olive walked out of her hotel in Cumbria with a mysterious stranger and hasn’t been seen since. Given the weather, and the perilous state of the roads, police are concerned for her safety.
We are even more so, because despite being supposedly happily married to the ‘sexiest man in Parliament’, Olive allowed herself to be seduced by the mysterious stranger – a beautiful woman – only to find out that the stranger filmed the entire encounter and is threatening to post footage on the internet if Olive doesn’t leave the hotel immediately. Terrified that her life is about to fall apart, Olive feels she has no choice, but as the two of them drive away into the night, she wonders whether she might have chosen the more deadly of two very dangerous paths.
And then they skid on black ice; the car leaves the road, plummeting into a ravine.
PC Garry Mizon is assigned to the case. At school he had a huge crush on Olive, so is keen to find her safe and well. Trouble is, as police officers go, Garry isn’t very good. He hates police work and dreams of being a florist. And when he learns that Olive might not be the first woman connected to Michael Anderson either to die mysteriously, or vanish without trace, he knows he’s well out of his depth.
Did Olive survive the crash? Will Garry find her in time? And are we looking at one fake wife? Or several?
