The police receive a call.
‘Please help. He’s coming.’
The small voice is barely a whisper.
‘Who’s coming? Are you in danger?’
‘He has a knife. He killed her.’
The line goes dead.
Nine-year-old Anya crawls into a cupboard in her bedroom and calls the police again. The line connects as the bedroom door creaks open.
‘They’re here . . .’
A blood-curdling scream barrels down the phone, filling the earpiece of the operator.
For the second time, the lines goes dead.
Detectives Tanzy and Byrd are called to Anya’s home, a small, semi-detached property.
They’re hit by the familiar smell of death.
Something terrible happened here — and it’s up to Tanzy and Byrd to pull together the pieces of this terrifying puzzle.
Chris was born in Darlington, North East of England. He loves spending time with his family which include his three sons. He enjoys walking on the beach, listening to music, going for the occasional run to keep fit, playing football, and coaching his son’s football team.
When he’s not at work and at home, he loves reading (crime), watching engineering and construction programs (he loves how things methodically fit together), likes to immerse himself in horror / supernatural films and series which make the hairs on his neck stand on end, satisfying his strange fixation for unusual escapism, and possesses a disturbing obsession with drinking far too much coffee to feed his writing habits.
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My thoughts: This had me hooked from the beginning, who was Anya and why was she so scared? And then when she’s not the only child in peril, but that little girl has vanished, and there’s more murders, plus there’s something weird going on at the rehab/spa place that is suspicious.
I like Tanzy and Byrd, I enjoyed their previous outings, they’re interesting characters, both with full personal lives that often take a back seat to their jobs. Which throws up other issues and they have to balance things. They’re also very good detectives, with the ability to spot the thing that the whole case could hinge on.
Good, solid crime writing, lots of twists and hold-your-breath moments.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
ramblingmads 
Thank you so much for being a part of the tour x
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