Out of her depth, a young detective must evade a fatal jab A journalist is found brutally murdered and buried upside down on Crosby beach. Terry Lawler had exposed the secrets of powerful people and apparently got his comeuppance. But when DI Tara Grogan digs further, she makes a startling discovery. Within the victim’s home are details about dozens of missing women. Details that might only be known to the last person who saw them. Just what was his connection to these disappearances in Belfast and Liverpool? Has Grogan stumbled upon evidence of a serial killer who someone else has got to first? In which case, exactly who is Grogan hunting for? And does she really want to find them?

A thrilling page-turner full of wicked twists A body is found, stripped to the waist and stretched out, open arms and open legs across a circular wooden frame, palms and feet nailed to the structure. Investigating, DI Tara Grogan begins to suspect it could be the work of a secret religious organisation. What she doesn’t know is that someone she’s had run-ins with in the past has his sights on her, and ultimately murder on his mind. She’s escaped his clutches before. But this time is different. The wheels of justice turn slowly… will they deliver before the tenacious cop meets an untimely end?

Stymied in her pursuit of ruthless killers, a detective risks what she holds dearest The murder of gang leader Ryan Boswell suggests a drugs feud has broken out on a notorious Liverpool housing estate. When a hunch leads investigating officer DI Tara Grogan to Belfast, she realises there’s much more to the case than a turf war. Yet the recovery of the body of a missing person from the Irish Sea will throw her a potentially deadly curve ball. Having locked horns with a chief inspector, under threat from members of Belfast’s criminal underworld, and finally within the reach of a career-long nemesis, Tara is in no uncertain trouble. She has a theory, and a plan, but if her gambit fails it’ll be the last move she makes…