Series: Ben Harper #3
By: Robert Gold
Narrator: George Weightman
ISBN: 9781836180319
Publisher: Bookouture
Publication Date: 08/02/2024
Format: Audio/e-books
My Rating: TBR
The headlights blind me as the cab pulls away, but I catch a glimpse of my friend’s carefully made-up face before the car disappears into the darkness. If I knew that was the last time I’d see her, I might have recognised the fear in her beautiful green eyes.
Madeleine is a whip-smart journalist and one of my dearest friends. So when she doesn’t come back into work after a particularly tense birthday dinner, I begin to panic. Then I get a message that chills me to the bone: It's time to settle the score. Call the police and she’s dead.
Madeleine’s beaten face stares back at me from the photo, and my heart hammers at the spark of recognition in her eyes. She knows her attacker. Madeleine was always the first to get any story, and the last to worry about her own safety. She made a lot of enemies in her career, but who would want to kill her?
Digging into her past, I discover details of a chilling murder case twenty years ago that Madeleine launched into national headlines and put a man away for murder. As I press her friends and contacts for more, a detail lets slip that explains everything: someone else was there the night the murder took place. Someone Madeleine may pay with her life to protect.
As I close in on answers, her kidnapper changes the game. He gives me a demand for two million in cash, or I will never see Madeleine again. Time is running out. I need to unpick the lies of the past to find out the truth before another precious life is taken…
A pulse-racing new crime novel with jaw-dropping twists that will have you constantly wondering ‘what happens next?’ Perfect for fans of Lisa Regan, Robert Dugoni and Kendra Elliot.
Ben Harper Thriller Series
About the Author
Robert Gold is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Ben Harper series, which includes Twelve Secrets, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Eleven Liars and Ten Seconds. Originally from Harrogate in North Yorkshire, Robert Gold began his career as an intern at the American broadcaster CNN, based in Washington DC. He returned to Yorkshire to work for the retailer ASDA, becoming the chain’s nationwide book buyer. He now works in sales for a UK publishing company. Robert now lives in Putney and his new hometown served as the inspiration for the fictional town of Haddley in his thrillers.
