O corpo de uma rapariga foi abandonado num velho celeiro de um terreno rural no sul de Inglaterra. O assassino deixou-a fechada dentro de um contentor metálico cuidadosamente posicionada em frente a uma câmara de vídeo ligada a um smartphone. É um dos seus prazeres secretos, ficar a admirar o resultado da sua obra, a decomposição progressiva do corpo.

DISCOVER AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING RACE-AGAINST-TIME THRILLER FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR CHARLIE GALLAGHER. MEET DETECTIVE MADDIE IVES IN THIS NEW SERIES THAT WILL HAVE YOU GRIPPED FROM THE EXPLOSIVE START TO ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING ENDINGS OF THE YEAR. Grace Hughes: kicked to the bathroom floor by her partner, her back and side aching from where he slammed the door on her frail body, fighting to regain her breath, she can no longer ignore a simple truth: SHE MUST LEAVE OR HE WILL KILL HER Grace is a prisoner in her own home but she has a plan to get free. Detective Sergeant Maddie Ives is going to help her. Maddie now works with a team specialising in getting abused women to safety. She tells Grace to keep a diary, to write everything down so it forms part of the compelling evidence needed to send her abuser to prison. The detective doesn’t know how bad it’s got. Grace hasn’t been completely honest. But Grace wants to tell her what's really happening so Maddie can get her safe. Maddie has a lot on her mind. A dead boy in a bath, a car bomber who wants to make a statement, and the return of a scarred DI Harry Blaker. Can he and Maddie stop the bomber, find a killer and get Grace safe—whether she helps herself or not? GRACE’S TIME IS RUNNING OUT. SHE MUST ESCAPE OR DIE. HE WILL KILL YOU: The new unputdownable thriller from Charlie Gallagher. Maddie Ives’ toughest case yet. Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Damien Boyd, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney or Mark Billingham.

MEET DETECTIVE MADDIE IVES IN THIS NEW SERIES THAT WILL HAVE YOU GRIPPED FROM THE EXPLOSIVE START TO ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING TWISTS THIS YEAR. Early Sunday morning, a rainy city centre. A ten-year-old-boy steps out in front of traffic. He is dazed, confused and barefoot. He is covered in blood. It’s not his. Detective Maddie Ives is called out and finds the boy backed up against a shop front. He can’t or won’t speak. His face is a mask of shock and his whole body is tense. He’s ready to run again. He can’t tell her why. WHO SCARED THIS BOY OUT OF HIS WITS? Then a man is found brutally murdered, dragged to death. And Maddie and Detective Harry Blaker are determined to find out who is pulling the strings. IF THEY DON’T STOP HIM, HE WILL FIND MORE VICTIMS. AND THE EVIL WILL COME CLOSE TO HOME. HE WILL FIND YOU: The new heart-pounding thriller from Charlie Gallagher. Maddie Ives faces her most dangerous adversary.

Three women: One Will sacrifice her life to stop him. One is his next victim. One must try to put him behind bars. Holly Maguire takes a taxi to a clifftop location. She is determined to make things right. Then the car goes over the edge of the cliff. As Holly falls to her death, she tightens her grip on a rucksack. .She will give her life to bring him down Kelly Dale wakes up to her first day without her mother. Her mum passed away late the previous night after losing a battle with cancer. Kelly receives a text from Holly, sent just before the accident, and rushes to the clifftop. She is too late. Kelly has lost her mother and girlfriend in the space of a few hours. Now she must face her own battle to stay alive. He will kill Kelly next. He wants to live-stream her murder. Detective Maddie Ives is called out to inspect the wrecked vehicle. She is under pressure to write it off as a murder-suicide or a terrible accident. Holly was a known sex worker and the running theory is that she may have been engaged in activity with the taxi driver when it rolled over the side. Maddie doesn’t buy it. Holly’s rucksack contains seemingly random and worthless items but Maddie quickly finds numerous links to a crime boss. Maddie must stop a powerful man who exploits and controls women. It’s a tense and thrilling ride as the net closes in. But time is running out to save Kelly.

A KILLER WHO LOVES TO WATCH THE RESULTS OF THE HAVOC HE WREAKS DETECTIVE MADDIE IVES FACES HER WORST NIGHTMARE. Lance Askew is a career serial killer. He lives for it. THE FIRST VICTIM Alice Oxley runs her own café. An older man has become a regular over the last month. He likes to people watch. He doesn’t say much. When he does speak. It comes from nowhere, he waits until she is very close: ”Your son is dead. I killed him.” Her boyfriend is dead too. He says he left them under the photo on the stairs, the one where they’re all smiling together. He drinks in her reaction then breaks the spell: “Go!” he rasps. She runs home to see what he has done. THE SECOND VICTIM Michelle Rice pushes open her garden gate. It makes a squealing sound – it always has. It is how Lance Askew knows she’s home. He can barely contain himself. He is waiting for her. Soon she will see what he has done. A THIRD VICTIM IS IDENTIFIED. Another family are about to have their lives ruined. Maddie Ives and Harry Blaker are the detectives who must stop this killer. And he is far from finished. ONE OF THEIR OWN IS THE NEXT TARGET

THEY LOST THEIR FAMILIES, NOW THEY’RE COMING FOR YOURS Four brutal men destroyed their own families. And they will do anything to get them back. Detective Maddie Ives won’t let that happen. She works with the people who will keep them safe. But then the team protecting them begin to be hunted down. The social worker leading the case is found beaten and suffocated. A man turns himself in claiming to be the killer, but Maddie knows he’s lying. FEAR WILL MAKE YOU DO THE UNIMAGINABLE Three more victims are under pressure. If they fail, their families will die. Detective Maddie Ives faces a heart-pounding race against time to connect the crimes. And she calls in Harry Blaker, still grieving the loss of his own daughter, to help. YOU’RE NOT EVEN SAFE IN YOUR OWN HOUSE

Edge-of-Your-Seat Suspense With Twist After Twist. Daisy-Mae wakes up cold, alone and in pain, her wrists bound tight. She has no idea where she is or how she got there. Too weak to sit up, she turns her head to the wall. Then she sees it. Three words, scrawled in large, black letters: DON’T WAKE UP. Detective Maddie Ives is on the case. Daisy-Mae was reported missing by her friend Megan when she didn’t turn up for work at the coffee shop. Megan disappears the next day. New Year’s Eve, 1999. Twenty-two years ago, two young women set off home from the nightclub where they worked. Their battered bodies were found five days later. The killer was never caught. The night club became a coffee shop where Megan and Daisy-Mae now work. Is history repeating itself? Maddie is in a desperate race against time to find Daisy-Mae and Megan before they suffer the cruellest fate. Because when they do wake up, that’s when the nightmare begins . . .

Saturday morning. A rare day off for Detective Maddie Ives. She’s about to have a relaxing shower with her boyfriend Vince when she gets the call: There’s been another one . . . Ron and Sandy Blackman’s brutalised bodies are found in the hallway of their isolated rural home. They’ve been stabbed multiple times; Ron’s hands are tied tightly behind his back; Sandy has several fingernails ripped out. The safe has been forced open. This is the second house of horrors that Maddie and her team have been called out to in a matter of days. Four days earlier, single mother Maria was also stabbed to death in her own home—with the same murder weapon. Maddie’s partner Vince was first on the scene. He finds Maria’s traumatised daughter trapped under the floorboards. Jade saw everything—but can remember nothing. Maddie is convinced these aren’t robberies gone wrong. These two families were specifically targeted, tortured for information. But what secrets was the killer so desperate to find out? The key to the mystery lies with eleven-year-old Jade. Maddie and her team are in a race against time to find out the truth before Jade’s memories come back . . . and the killer returns to silence her forever.

The girls are sleeping upstairs. If their parents make one wrong move, their daughters will die. Emmy and her little sister Dani are sleeping in their bedroom upstairs. Their parents are in the kitchen. A knife is jammed to their mother’s throat. Their father has a stack of kitchen plates balanced on his back. The intruder rasps, ‘Don’t be breathing too hard now. I reckon smashing plates is the sort of noise that’ll wake a child. Have them coming down to see what’s going on. There can’t be witnesses . . .’ What Detective Maddie Ives will find in that nice family kitchen will horrify even this most hardened cop. And she knows the victim . . .

In this three-book box set: Book 5: HE WILL GET YOU He’s one step ahead of them. He’s watching their every move. And his next target is one of their own. You might know who the killer is, but can you work out why? The body count is rising and each murder is more unpredictable than the last. Detective Maddie Ives races against time to work out the killer’s real motive. Book 6: THE DEADLY HOUSES Eighteen months ago, a young boy cowers downstairs as the police try to stop his father from brutally assaulting his mother. Now that man and three other domestic abusers have banded together to get revenge on the people they blame for taking their families away. A ring of brutal men working together against the police. And they have someone on the inside. Can Detective Maddie Ives keep their families safe? Book 7: LAST ONE ALIVE Daisy-Mae is now sure she’s awake. It’s not the cutting breeze or the musty smell that has her convinced, it’s the pain. You can’t dream pain. She is being held down, something tight over her arms, her chest too. She turns her head for a different a whitewashed wall with fresh graffiti. The letters spell out three words that are enough to have her retching DON’T WAKE UP . The next day Daisy-Mae’s friend also disappears. Time is running out. Detective Maddie Ives is their only chance to get out alive.