Dead Ends

Three crimes. Three women caught in the middle. One police team determined to uncover the truth.The first three books in the Dead Ends series bring together twist-filled British crime thrillers set on the streets of Leicester, where ordinary people find themselves drawn into extraordinary crimes and nothing is quite as it first appears.DOUBLE TAKEShe did the right thing. Now she’s the problem.When Esther Butler sees a man with a gun following a woman through the dark city streets, she calls the police.Minutes later, the man is dead. The police fired the shot.But no weapon can be foundEsther knows what she saw. Yet as her story begins to unravel, the evidence starts pointing back at her.DC Josie Kaminski must discover whether Esther is lying - or whether she is in terrible danger.OPEN WOUNDCan saving someone be the biggest mistake of your life?PR consultant Hannah Douglas-Jones stops at the scene of a house fire and pulls a young woman from the flames.Natasha is now homeless, so Hannah offers her somewhere to stay and a job. She seems to be exactly the person Hannah needs to rescue her struggling business and chaotic home life.But six people died in that fire, locked inside a cellar.As the investigation grows, DC Walker Smith discovers links to shameful secrets from his own past - and Hannah begins to wonder who she has invited into her life.SAFE SPACEWhen your memories are missing, how do you know you’re not the one to blame?A year after a carbon monoxide tragedy left five people dead, Cassie O’Donnell wakes from a coma to find her old life gone and her memories fractured.Desperate for answers, she joins a support group run by the survivors. But when one of its members dies from an apparent overdose, DS Rob Joseph enters the group undercover.Everyone there is carrying secrets. Someone knows what really happened on the night of the tragedy and they are willing to kill to keep the truth buried.