Zaffre

Dan Forrester, piecing his life back together after the tragic death of his son, is approached by a woman who tells him everything he knows about his life--and his son--is a lie. Grace Reavey, stricken by grief, is accosted at her mother’s funeral. The threat is simple: pay the staggering sum her mother allegedly owed, or lose everything. Lucy Davies has been forced from the Met by her own maverick behavior. Desperate to prove herself in her new rural post, she’s on the hunt for a killer--but this is no small town criminal. Plunged into a conspiracy that will test each of them to their limits, these three strangers are brought together in their hunt for the truth.

C. J. Carver is the author of seven works of crime fiction, including Back with Vengeance, Blood Junction and Honest Assassin. She has won the CWA Debut Dagger and the Barrie Award for Best British Crime Novel.