The Girl Across The Lake

IF EVEN THE POLICE ARE LYING, WHO WILL TELL THE TRUTH?

10 August 2003, the hottest day the UK has ever seen, ten-year-old Molly Parker disappears without a trace in North Wales. Despite his relentless efforts, DI Bill Lennox has to release his prime suspect, Jim Roper, for lack of evidence. Still obsessed with the case, Bill is finally suspended, demoted and forced to leave.

Twenty years on, another young girl is kidnapped but manages to escape and evidence once again points to the same suspect. But now the investigator is Bill’s niece, DI Barbara Forster. Roper is re-arrested but it soon emerges another girl has been taken – the race is on to find her.

Meanwhile Alice Myers, journalist and creator of the edgy true-crime podcast, The Girl at the Window, has controversially prompted the re-opening of the Molly Parker cold case Barbara’s uncle failed to crack. Her provocative actions lay bare old wounds and breathe new life into Barbara’s determination to nail the perpetrator and redeem her late uncle’s tarnished reputation.

But it is only when Barbara and Alice begin working together that the buried truth starts to emerge about this small, insular community. Layers of secrets are peeled away, revealing a chilling tapestry woven with deception, guilt and unspeakable horrors. Will Barbara and Alice’s collaboration be enough to finally expose the malevolent forces lurking beneath the tranquil façade - or will the shadows of the past continue to cast their ominous veil over the present?

Past passions lead to betrayal and a terrible revenge – one that still torments the present - in a fraught tale of wrecked lives, family tragedy and moral consequences.

‘A gripping crime thriller with a shocking, jaw-dropping double twist that ultimately forces you to question everything in this latest relentlessly chilling and harrowing portrait of evil ...’

ACCLAIM FOR NORA JOHNSON (www.nora-johnson.net)

‘A COMPLEX PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE THRILLER ... AND A PLOT THAT TWISTS AND TURNS LIKE AN OCTOPUS’