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The Kindle Best seller returns with the first in a gripping new crime series. A Stranger. A promise. A deadly game. Danny and Sharon Evans are desperate for answers. Why did their seemingly happy daughter try to take her own life? When a stranger approaches Danny, saying he knows who’s to blame, Danny is tempted, despite Sharon’s reservations. And when his new friend offers them revenge, how can he walk away? But little does Danny know he is being invited to play a terrible game. A game that won't just change lives – it will end them. DI Joel Norris knows this is no ordinary case when two seemingly unconnected murders hit his desk within a matter of days. But how far is he willing to go to solve the puzzle? Dark, gripping and unforgettable, The Friend will keep fans of Harlan Coben and Mark Billingham on the edge of their seats.

â??This fast paced, electric thriller races from page to page and keeps you guessing until the very endâ?? NetGalley review ????? He knows your name. Where you live. The car you drive. If you donâ??t play, your family will die. If you lose, you will.

The Kindle Best seller returns with the first in a gripping new crime series.A Stranger. A promise. A deadly game.Danny and Sharon Evans are desperate for answers. Why did their seemingly happy daughter try to take her own life?When a stranger approaches Danny, saying he knows who's to blame, Danny is tempted, despite Sharon's reservations. And when his new friend offers them revenge, how can he walk away?But little does Danny know he is being invited to play a terrible game. A game that won't just change lives - it will end them.DI Joel Norris knows this is no ordinary case when two seemingly unconnected murders hit his desk within a matter of days. But how far is he willing to go to solve the puzzle?Dark, gripping and unforgettable, The Friend will keep fans of Harlan Coben and Mark Billingham on the edge of their seats.

'This fast paced, electric thriller races from page to page and keeps you guessing until the very end' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐He knows your name. Where you live. The car you drive.If you don't play, your family will die. If you lose, you will.When DI Joel Norris and DS Lucy Rose begin investigating the death of a young woman, murdered on a quiet country lane, they can't imagine what lies ahead.This killer uses his victims like chess pieces in a life-sized contest, with the highest stakes imaginable.Now Norris and Rose are pawns at the mercy of a twisted rulebook.Can they beat him at his own game before the next round begins and more innocent lives are taken?A totally addictive, edge-of-your-seat, crime-thriller that will leave you breathless. Perfect for fans of Cara Hunter, Ian Rankin and Stuart MacBride.Readers are gripped by Lethal Game: 'Explodes into a nail-biting, breath-holding, scary ride that I loved every minute of ' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A fabulous page-turner of a book Full on action from the first chapter, and a fabulous thriller that kept me guessing right up to the very end' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A plot like no other, couldn't put it down... So many twists and turns, when you think you have it all worked out it twists again' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This is so good Charlie Gallagher writes from experience and it shows... I was completely drawn in the entire way from start to finish' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Brilliant... Kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. Charlie is one of the best crime writers around' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A non-stop thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. You will not want to put this one down ' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I always make sure my diary is clear for a couple of days before I start one of Charlie Gallagher's books as they never fail to keep you turning the pages until it is finished. Perhaps the best one yet' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Strap yourself in for another dark, twisting and deeply unpredictable thriller' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Left me on the edge of my seat. A brilliant thriller' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

WHEN THEY WAKE UP, THEIR NIGHTMARE BEGINS . . .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 view: a whitewashed wall, faded by time, scuffed to add to the impression of a building deserted in a hurry. But there is something in the room that looks fresh: graffiti.The letters spell out three words that are enough to have her retching again: DON'T WAKE UP.A killer who gets his kicks from keeping his victims alive and giving them a glimmer of hope.The next day Daisy-Mae's friend also disappears. Twenty-two years ago, New Year's Eve. 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.Is history repeating itself?Time is running out. Detective Maddie Ives is their only chance to get out alive.

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.

Discover the most explosive crime thriller this year.EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER.Emmy and her little sister Dani are sleeping upstairs. Their parents are downstairs 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 . . .Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney or Mark Billingham.DON'T MISS THE MOST UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR

My sister is missing. My father is guilty... As Jessica Walsh waits in a café for her usual therapy session on a normal Monday morning, a stranger sits down opposite her. This woman has a story that eerily mirrors Jess’s own. They both have sisters who are addicts. They both have fathers who are becoming increasingly desperate. The one difference is that Jess knows her dad would never resort to violence to fix the 'problem' as this woman’s father has. Or so she thinks. Later that morning, as Jessica leaves therapy, she has multiple voicemails from Vicki: her father is wielding an axe and Vicki needs her here now. When Jessica gets home, her father is quick to explain. He has hired a company to do whatever is necessary to get her sister clean. The measures are extreme, but this is all to help her. But Jessica can't forget the woman in the café. Jess worries that her father’s desperation has been exploited – or is he even telling the truth? All she knows for certain is that she needs to find her sister before something truly terrible happens.