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Lisa, una giovane donna con un passato da dimenticare, non riesce a credere alla propria fortuna: ha appena trovato una bellissima stanza in affitto in una splendida casa. E Martha e Jack, i proprietari con cui andrà a coabitare, sono una coppia gentile e premurosa. Sembra proprio un sogno che si realizza. Fino al giorno in cui Lisa trova, nascosto nella sua stanza, il biglietto di un uomo che annuncia il suicidio. Alla sua richiesta di spiegazioni, Martha e Jack negano che la stanza sia mai stata occupata da qualcuno prima del suo arrivo.

Dreda Say Mitchell visits the Audible Studios; she is a novelist, broadcaster, journalist and champion of education for working class children. She talks about her upcoming crime series which follows one family over forty years on an East London estate - the first book in the series is called Blood Sister.

Two ten-year-old twin sisters are murdered outside their school. But they aren't just anyone's kids, they are gangster Stanley Lewis' daughters. When a rival gangster is arrested Stanley vows to take revenge. But his dad, feared villain Kenny Lewis, thinks there's more going on. So he contacts the one group of people who he trusts to help him find the truth...

Rachel, a young woman in serious debt, needs to find a job fast before she’s made homeless. She gets a lucky break when she is offered a great position in a successful company. Then she discovers that the building was once a Victorian sweatshop with a tragic history. Is this why Rachel feels something increasingly sinister? Soon her new job becomes a living nightmare. Rachel desperately wants out, but she has no other way of escaping her debts. She’s trapped. Then she makes a shocking discovery.

Home is where the nightmare is. The number one international best seller everyone can't stop talking about. Beautiful double room to let to single person. Lisa, a troubled young woman with a past, can’t believe her luck when she finds a beautiful room to rent in a large house. The live-in owners are a kind and welcoming couple. Everything is fine until she finds a suicide note hidden in her room. But when the couple insist this man didn’t exist and that Lisa is their first tenant, Lisa begins to doubt herself.

Ormai sommersa dai debiti, la giovane Rachel non crede alla sua fortuna quando le viene offerto un lavoro presso un'azienda di successo. L'edificio che ospita la società ha però una storia tragica, cosa che inizialmente la incuriosisce, almeno fino a che quel senso costante di inquietudine non comincia a perseguitarla. Il lavoro di ogni giorno si trasforma ben presto in un incubo, ma Rachel non ha scelta, e se non vuole finire in mezzo a una strada deve tenere duro senza farsi suggestionare da stupide storie. In fondo, ormai è acqua passata, no?

It’s twenty years since Eva, a biracial woman, was adopted as an eight-year-old, and Cherry and Carlton "Sugar" McNeil have always been the only parents she’s wanted or needed. But when she’s dealt the double blow of Cherry’s death and her own suspension from work, Eva decides it’s time to discover who she was before she was theirs. Against Sugar’s advice, Eva joins a DNA database, desperate for a match that will unlock her identity. And when a positive hit comes, she’s excited to learn there are relations out there who might hold the key.

Lawyer Gabby Lewis always knew she would die young. Since her mother’s death twenty-five years ago, she’s dreaded her upcoming fortieth birthday, the same age her mother died. When she discovers a connection between her mother and a suspicious mansion house, Ocean Haven, Gabby begins to suspect that her mother’s death wasn’t an accident, it was murder.