'A compulsive thriller' Ann Cleeves

'Immediately gripping, compelling and emotionally wrought...Clear your diary and get reading!' Gytha Lodge

His team is compromised. His girlfriend's in danger. And the biggest case of his career hangs in the balance.

As dusk falls the night before the trial of notorious crime boss Thomas Unwin, the prosecution's star witness is brutally murdered, his killer escaping in plain sight from a secure hotel.

Detective Rick Turner spent months building the case against Unwin, and he's not willing to give up now. But Unwin has one final trick up his sleeve to turn the trial in his favour: he has Rick's girlfriend, Jess, kidnapped in a plan to coerce Rick into throwing his own testimony.

Faced with a stark choice, Rick must find Jess or give false testimony which would cost him his career and let Unwin walk free. But with the net closing in Rick must soon face a terrifying truth: the killer is closer to him than he ever expected, and as the case turns personal there is no one he can trust, not even his closest colleagues...