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The international bestseller that “grabs the reader by the throat" (Crime Time). First in the new series featuring Detective Inspector Helen Grace. Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive. It’s a game more twisted than any Detective Inspector Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn’t spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn’t believe them. Helen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this case—with its seemingly random victims—has her baffled. But as more people go missing, nothing will be more terrifying than when it all starts making sense....
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“A cast of narrators takes on Arlidge’s debut thriller about a female serial killer…Elizabeth Bower ably reflects Detective Inspector Helen Grace’s skill, determination, and masked insecurities as she tracks down the monster. Annie Aldington expertly depicts the cunning, heartless murderer, infusing just a hint of insanity into the mix…[For] fans of serial killer plots.”
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About M. J. Arlidge
M. J. Arlidge has worked in television for the last fifteen years, specializing in high end drama production. In the last five years Arlidge has produced a number of prime-time crime serials for ITV, including Torn, The Little House and most recently Undeniable, broadcast in spring 2014. Currently writing for Silent Witness, Arlidge is also piloting original crime series for both UK and US networks.
About the Narrators
Annie Aldington was born in South London, studied at the Guildford School of Acting, and followed her drama training with a degree in community theater. She has worked in television, radio, voice-over, and in the theater, acting in roles such as Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It and as the distrait housewife in Dario Fo’s Female Parts. She has also formed a company with three other members, writing and performing comedy sketches for television and radio.
Elizabeth Bower is
an English actress from Yorkshire. She played Dr. Melody Bell for two years in
the BBC television drama Doctors. She
has previously provided voice-overs for interactive characters at Madame
Tussauds as well as narrating a series of children’s stories for the BBC’s Big Toe Radio Show and voicing over
fifty animated characters for Channel 4’s The
Insiders.
Lucy Gaskell is a British actress whose many film and television
credits include Crossing Lines, Misfits, Being Human, and Doctor Who.
She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and had her
television breakthrough as Ruby Ferris on BBC One’s The Last Drop. That role earned her a nomination for Network
Newcomer on Screen 2002 at the Royal Television Society Awards.
Nigel Pilkington is a British actor, writer, and voice-over artist.
He appeared in the 2006 James Bond film Casino
Royale, among other films and television shows.