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Book SynopsisA cold case that’s no longer cold. A suspect who’s been murdered. A silenced witness.
A brilliant debut. —Steve Cavanagh
True fans of Val McDermid will love Payne''s writing.” —A. J. West
One of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction. —Kia Abdullah
DI Sheridan Holler is used to solving crimes on Liverpool’s streets, but after a decayed corpse turns up in a cemetery, she finds herself reopening not one but two cold cases. Seven years earlier, two women were gunned down and the only suspect, small-time drug dealer John Lively, was never seen again. Case closed. Until the body in the cemetery is identified as his.
Holler needs to work out if Lively was killed out of revenge, or was just a victim of the criminal world he inhabited. When shocking evidence is revealed about the murder weapon, Holler’s cold case starts to look hopeless once more.
But defeat is not an optio
