Read a preview extract from Hurt before it’s published in November 2013
Danger Hides in Plain Sight …
Brian McGilloway’s Little Girl Lost was a runaway bestseller, now DS Lucy Black returns in Hurt, a tense crime thriller about the abuse of power and how the young and vulnerable can fall prey to those they should be able to trust.
A sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on a train line one freezing December night in Derry. Detective Sergent Lucy Black is called to identify the body of the murdered girl as Karen Hughes. As Lucy delves deeper in to the case, she discovers that Karen has been living in residential care the child of an alcoholic mother and a father behind bars. The only clue as to the girl’s movements are her mobile phone and various social media sites – where her ‘friends’ are not all they seem …
Hurt is coming this Autumn.
Also includes bonus DS Lucy Black short story – The Sacrifice.
Danger Hides in Plain Sight …
Brian McGilloway’s Little Girl Lost was a runaway bestseller, now DS Lucy Black returns in Hurt, a tense crime thriller about the abuse of power and how the young and vulnerable can fall prey to those they should be able to trust.
A sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on a train line one freezing December night in Derry. Detective Sergent Lucy Black is called to identify the body of the murdered girl as Karen Hughes. As Lucy delves deeper in to the case, she discovers that Karen has been living in residential care the child of an alcoholic mother and a father behind bars. The only clue as to the girl’s movements are her mobile phone and various social media sites – where her ‘friends’ are not all they seem …
Hurt is coming this Autumn.
Also includes bonus DS Lucy Black short story – The Sacrifice.
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