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Kristina Ohlsson

Silenced

Fifteen years ago a young girl was brutally attacked in the meadow behind her parents’ Swedish country home. The crime went unreported; the victim
silenced.

Cut to the present.
It is a bleak February morning in Stockholm, when an unknown man is killed in a hit and run. At the same time, a priest and his wife are
discovered dead in their apartment. Meanwhile, out in Bangkok on a business trip, a young woman finds that her flight has mysteriously been cancelled and, whichever way she turns, all contact
with home has been cut off.

Following a trail that leads all the way back to the ’90s, Alex Recht’s team at the Stockholm Police, along with Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman, uncover a
terrible crime that was hushed-up, but whose consequences reach further and deeper than anyone could ever expect.

Intense, urgent and full of surprises,
Silenced
is a treat for anyone who loved
The Bridge
and
The Killing
.

‘Compelling’
Sunday Times

Paperback ISBN 978-1-84983-131-4
Ebook ISBN 978-1-84737-962-7

Penny Hancock

The Darkening Hour

Dora on Mona
‘Mona is, I guess, a few years older than me. Crooked teeth. Poorly nourished, pale brown skin. Health care is expensive where she comes from. I’m helping her, I think. I’ll
improve her life. A fair exchange – after all, she’s here to improve mine.’

When Theodora Gentleman employs Moroccan immigrant Mona, she has little choice but to invite this perfect stranger into her home.

But when two women are forced to make their home under the same roof, power struggles are quick to occur. And Theodora soon begins to suspect that Mona is not all she
seems.

Mona on Dora
‘When I arrived, Theodora opened the door herself. She smiled, though I know from experience that looks can lie. I could see straightaway that Dora needed me. This is good. Need creates
opportunity. It gives me power.’

Mona knows that this job is the only hope left of supporting her elderly mother and daughter living back in Rabat. But with each passing day, Mona begins to realise that Dora
might not be the kindly employer she had hoped for…

Hardback ISBN 978-1-47111-124-2
Ebook ISBN 978-0-85720-626-8

Kimberly McCreight

Finding Amelia

Single mother and lawyer Kate Baron is in the meeting of her career when she is interrupted by a telephone call. Her teenaged daughter Amelia has just been suspended from her
exclusive prep school for cheating. When Kate eventually arrives at the school an hour later, she is greeted by news that no mother ever wants to hear.

A grieving Kate can’t accept that her daughter would kill herself. But she soon discovers she didn’t know Amelia quite as well as she thought. Who are the friends
she kept, what are the secrets she hid?

And so begins an investigation which takes her deep into Amelia’s private world, and into the mind of a troubled young girl. Slowly, Kate reconstructs Amelia through her
online world of texts, social networks and chat rooms – the ordinary obsessions of a living, breathing girl; now, the precious final words of a dead one.

Then Kate receives an anonymous text: AMELIA DIDN’T JUMP. Is someone toying with her or has she been right all along? To find peace and the truth about her daughter, she
must face a darker reality than she ever imagined…

Paperback ISBN 978-1-47111-129-7
Ebook ISBN 978-1-47111-130-3

Camilla Grebe & Åsa Träff

More Bitter Than Death

Sometimes reliving the past revives old demons . . .

In a Stockholm apartment, five-year-old Tilde watches from under the kitchen table as her mother is brutally kicked to death.

Meanwhile, in another part of town, psychotherapist Siri Bergman and her colleague Aina meet their new patients – a group of women, all of whom are victims of domestic
violence.

From Kattis, who was beaten by her boyfriend and lives under the constant threat of his return, to Malin, the promising young athlete who was attacked by a man she met online,
and from Sofi, the teenager abused by her stepfather, to Sirkka, an older woman who had a troubled marriage – each woman takes her turn to share her story in the safety of the sessions.

But as the group gets closer, it is not long before the dangers lurking in the women’s lives outside invade the peace with shattering consequences. And somehow, the fate
of five-year-old Tilde is intertwined with that of Siri and the other women, so that what started out as the search for peace will swiftly turn into a tense hunt for a murderer.

Trade Paperback ISBN 978-0-85720-949-8
Ebook ISBN 978-0-85720-951-1