From the bestselling author of Blood Guilt comes a breathless new thriller.
A disillusioned detective with nothing left to lose.
Catching criminals is all DI Jim Monahan has ever been good at. Just ask his ex-wife. Now he's staring down the barrel of a lonely retirement. Worse still, he's no longer sure he believes in the law he's spent his life upholding. Then comes a call that will test what remains of his belief to its limits and beyond...
A shadowy ring of powerful people who'll do anything to protect a depraved secret.
In Sheffield a soon-to-be bankrupt businessman has gone on a murderous rampage against his own family. The man and his wife lie dead in their burning mansion. Their son and daughter are found outside, riddled with shotgun pellets, barely alive. It seems like an open-and-shut case. But the charred ruins of the house reveal evidence of a second sickening crime – one involving a young girl who went missing fifteen years earlier...
A damaged prostitute hell bent on revenge.
In Middlesbrough a woman stares down at a violent punter she's just shot dead. Her entire life Angel has been abused by those who claimed to love her. Now she's finally had enough. It's time to stop running. It's time to start fighting back. She's going to make them pay for what they did to her. With the murdered man's gun in her handbag, she heads south on her deadly mission. And as the bodies begin to pile up, only one thing is certain – life will never be the same for anyone caught in the path of the 'Angel of Death'.
