The brilliant new thriller from the acclaimed author of Shadow Dancer

The village of East Welham has never recovered from the day when two of its inhabitants were brutally murdered on the common nearly fifteen years before. The deaths of the young woman, Sarah Ford, and her six-year-old daughter, Alice, have left jagged scars in the collective memories of those who remain there, not least Julia Havilland.
Julia has been suspended from her job in military intelligence after the death of an informer in China. When the East Welham murderer is released on appeal, the deaths float uneasily to the surface once more. For Julia, the case has a compelling resonance. Soon after the murders her father and his regiment were dispatched to the Falkland Islands, but he never came back. Returning to the village, her military career under investigation, Julia begins to probe the murders, and discovers that even from beyond the grave the past can exert a stranglehold on the present...

Shadow Dancer:
'Quite exceptional ... A taut compelling story of love and tom loyalties. ' Daily Telegraph

Locked in the mind of Thomas Meredith are terrible visions of how a serial killer tortured and murdered his girlfriend, in front of his very eyes, a year earlier. Meredith is now practically a recluse; his life has crumbled around him and he has thrown in his medical practice to work the graveyard shift in a local motorway cafe. Meanwhile the killer has claimed more victims. Meredith is the only living witness to his actions and the police need him to remember and relive that night's devastating events. There is only with the ability and empathy to make Meredith open up: Natalie Vine, one of Britain's top forensic psychiatrists. Gradually an attachment forms between then and Meredith starts recalling details his mind had shut out. Details that just might identify the killer, a killer who is closer than they realise...