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By Elizabeth Haynes
Girls proportion a grisly destiny within the first access of this fascinating new British crime series--a combination of literary suspense and page-turning mystery that introduces the ambitious Detective leader Inspector Louisa Smith--from the New York Times bestselling writer Elizabeth Haynes, "the most enjoyable factor to occur to crime fiction in a protracted time" (Sophie Hannah, writer of Kind of Cruel).
In the crisp, early hours of an autumn morning, the police are referred to as to enquire deaths. the 1st is a suspected homicide at a farm at the outskirts of a small village. a stunning younger girl has been stumbled on useless, her cottage sopping wet with blood. the second one is a pronounced suicide at a close-by quarry. A vehicle with a woman's physique within has been discovered on the backside of the pit.
As DCI Louisa Smith and her workforce assemble facts over the process the subsequent six days, they find a surprising hyperlink among the 2 circumstances and the 2 deaths--a bond that sealed those women's bad fates one chilly evening, lower than a silent moon.
In this compelling new detective sequence, Elizabeth Haynes interweaves fictional basic resource materials--police reviews, mobile messages, interviews--and a number of personality viewpoints to create an attractive, edgy, and compulsively readable story of homicide, secret, and unsettling suspense.
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How about you? ’ ‘No one settles in London. ’ I smiled at that, just about stopped a blush. That’s how I had met Laura, trying to build up police sources, drinking in the pubs where the police hung out. I’d spotted Laura on the edge of a group of detectives. When it was her turn to buy the drinks, I got talking. I’d tried the flirt at first, we were around the same age, but I got nowhere. She had a husband and a child, and she wasn’t going to risk any of that. So I gave it to her straight. If she wanted her cases to make the news, if she wanted to have some control over how they were told, she ought to use me.
She put her head back, began to moan. She glanced over at Ben. His eyes were wild, his breaths trying hard to keep up, the gag making his face go red. Her ears still rang from the shots. The first shot had bounced around the room until it seemed to come back at itself. Then the second shot had filled her head, and she knew from the way the buyer relaxed that what had needed doing was done. Sophie began to sob, could feel herself shaking, her head back. All she could see now was the ceiling, brilliant white, flashes of blue getting brighter as the noise of sirens came in through the open window.
Henri Dumas looked around and checked his watch, a TAG Heuer. Five more minutes and then he was gone. He saw people looking at him. He shuffled nervously. He knew he shouldn’t be doing this. Some kids across the road were staring at him, pushing each other, egging on one of their number to speak to him. He checked his watch again. The kids started walking over the road, one of them being pushed to the front, camera in hand. Shit. Not what he needed. He pulled out his phone. The crowds didn’t hear the crack of the rifle.