The girls are sleeping upstairs. If their parents make one wrong move, their daughters will die.

EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER.

Emmy and her little sister Dani are sleeping in their bedroom upstairs. Their parents are in the kitchen.

A knife is jammed to their mother’s throat. Their father has a stack of kitchen plates balanced on his back.

The intruder rasps, ‘Don’t be breathing too hard now. I reckon smashing plates is the sort of noise that’ll wake a child. Have them coming down to see what’s going on. There can’t be witnesses . . .’

What Detective Maddie Ives will find in that nice family kitchen will horrify even this most hardened cop.

And she knows the victim . . .

Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney or Mark Billingham.