On Sale: Jan 27, 2026
Page Count: 304 pages
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13: 9781454968832

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DC Smith and the rest of the murder squad are on the case to find a missing woman—but the danger might be closer than they assume.

A big car pulls up. No one gets out. Then the doors of a bar nearby open and people appear. Two men and a young woman, and one of the men has a hold on the woman’s arm. It looks as if they’re having words.

Then this all happens quickly—they push the woman towards the car, one of the back doors opens and they manhandle her inside. There's a muffled shout from the woman and the car pulls away.

It’s all over in a few seconds.

It's just a few seconds—but seconds are all it takes to set in motion a sequence of events involving every member of the Kings Lake Central murder squad in the days to follow—and this time the threat is to one of their own.

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A DC Smith/Kings Lake Investigation

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Peter Grainger

About the Author

Peter Grainger is the “creator of the greatest fictional sleuth you’ve probably never heard of” (Financial Times magazine). A former sixth-form English teacher, Peter is the author of 23 novels. He lives with his wife, sometimes a grandson, and a dog in a cottage in the Cambridgeshire fens. He travels as often as possible to the Norfolk coast he once called home.

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