DISCOVER AN ELECTRIFYING NEW CRIME SERIES FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
What everyone is saying about Cath Staincliffe:
'A real knockout.' Ian Rankin 'One of the best police procedurals I've read this year.' Ann Cleeves 'A star in the firmament of British crime fiction.' Big Issue 'Mercilessly exciting.' Daily Telegraph _________________________
A missing woman. A cold case. A dark secret, buried deep beneath the Yorkshire Dales.
Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote stone cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She won't wake her friends. Not after the night they just had.
She scrawls a note, her hand trembling with excitement. Gone to see the sun rise. V xxx
That's the last anyone ever hears from vibrant twenty-year-old Vicky.
Everyone warned her. Of the predator stalking the lush green fells. Convicted killer Terence Bielby. He strangled three hikers before he got to Vicky. Now he has her blood on his hands, too.
It's only a matter of time until the evidence surfaces . . .
2019. A human skeleton is discovered in a dark and treacherous cave beneath the Dales. The final resting place of Vicky Mott?
Detectives Leo Donovan and Shan Young think they've found the key to this decades-old mystery. But every answer they unearth only leads to more questions.
All Donovan's instincts tell him that, this time, Bielby's innocent. But if the Fellside Strangler didn't do it, then who?
The truth is darker than the twisty network of caves beneath the detectives' feet.
**Cath Staincliffe has been shortlisted six times for the prestigious CWA Dagger Awards.**
Fans of Rachel McLean, Angela Marsons, D.S. Butler, Lynda La Plante, Rebecca Bradley and Caro Ramsay are sure to be hooked from the first page to the shocking final twist.
'It's brilliant! Buy it!' Ann Cleeves **Shortlisted for The People's Books Prize 2024/2025!** Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx That's the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. Another victim of the Fellside Strangler? That would make Vicky the fourth young woman to lose her life this summer. Snatched by a mysterious killer who stalks the fells . . . But Vicky's body is never found. 2019. A skeleton is discovered in a twisty network of caves beneath the fells. Detectives Leo Donovan and Shan You