Retribution

THREE MURDERS. MULTIPLE SUSPECTS. NO PROOF.



Sixteen years ago, Alice’s closest friend suddenly breaks off their friendship in the New Forest where they both grew up. And Alice’s father inexplicably moves the family away to London. All these years later, everything changes …



Returning to her childhood home on the death of her grandmother, journalist Alice Myers finds a community in upheaval. The death of her childhood friend, Ellie, is just the start. Her body washed up on the rocks looks, at first, like suicide.



Alice is persuaded to write an obituary about her talented friend, as much a way of dealing with her own writer's block as unravelling the mystery of Ellie’s death. While her interest becomes almost obsessive, DI Neil Hunter is pursuing the investigation about this and subsequent murders. Is a serial killer on the rampage? Who will be the next victim?



But it is only when they begin working together that the truth starts to emerge about this small, isolated community and its harrowing past and present … A truth that even Alice can scarcely believe.



As she peels back the layers of deception surrounding the murders, she finds that no one seems wholly above suspicion …



From the author of The De Clerambault Code and Soul Stealer and the latest in the popular, gritty Alice Myers psychological crime thriller series and the best yet!



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



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