The Missing Children Case Files: Case 4 'Mind-blowingly addictive!' Samantha Lee Howe, USA Today-bestselling author of The Stranger in Our Bed Where better to hide a body than in someone else's grave? When a girl goes missing from the shores of Dorset in a crime eerily similar to one two decades earlier, her parents enlist investigative journalist and bestselling author Emma Hunter to find her. Where better to bury the truth than in someone else's lie? But then Jack calls her saying they've found a suitcase of bones beneath the ash of the studio Freddie burned down in Berkshire eight months earlier. As Emma contends with the question of whether her worst fear has finally been realised, her agent Maddie calls her from London saying she's been sent a message from the killers. When monsters rise the children are the first to die... They've not only noticed her string of solved cases, they're watching her, warning her. Every day Emma fails to stop them could end with another child's...

Some secrets are too big to bury... Investigative journalist Emma Hunter never thought she'd be a bestselling author. Especially not for a blistering exposé of the brutal horrors committed at an orphanage. Some secrets breed in the dark... All she wants is to return home to the anchoring salt air and solitude of Weymouth where questions still fester unanswered and a twenty-year-old secret binds her to the beach. And some of them always escape... But then she finds herself sucked into the chaos of another cold case and soon realises the search for the missing girl will not only unearth the rot ravaging the safety of children across the south of England, but could even solve the mystery that has tortured her since she was seven years old... Ransomed marks the beginning of a nerve-shredding new crime series of feral reckonings and found family in the face of harrowing inhumanity, perfect for fans of Angela Marsons and Ann Cleeves. Praise for Ransomed: 'A captivating book that kept me...

'Mind-blowingly addictive!' Samantha Lee Howe, USA Today-bestselling author of The Stranger in Our Bed A bloody pig's head nailed to a wall... Investigate journalist Emma Hunter is in the thick of another cold case featuring a game of truth or dare in a dark forest by a Dorset army base 15 years ago that went horribly wrong. Four girls went in, only three came out. A Wiccan map splattered with red ink... Wreathed in mist and memory, the barracks offered no remains of any kind, just a hole in the perimeter fence and years of unanswered questions. An ancient ritual drenched in death... But when Emma teams up with fellow firebrand reporter Rachel and whip-smart cold case expert Jack, she soon discovers it wasn't a game at all as a grand and sinister pattern begins to unfurl around them. The second explosive instalment in The Missing Children Case Files is an unputdownable crime thriller of abduction, betrayal, and isolation, perfect for fans of J M Dalgliesh and Michael Connelly....

Four little words can ruin a life. When Jess meets five-year-old Daisy and her mum, Morag, in a local London park, they seem a perfectly happy and loving pair. Until Daisy whispers four little words that send ice seeping down Jess's spine... She's not my mum. Determined to save Daisy, Jess becomes obsessed with unearthing Morag's secrets. As she digs ever deeper, her friends and family start to question her own increasingly paranoid behaviour... Four little words can end a life. But Jess knows what she heard and she's certain the fear in Daisy's eyes was real. Of course she isn't imagining things... Or is she? Mummy's Little Secret is a nerve-shredding new psychological thriller from the author of The Missing Children Case Files – perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and C.L. Taylor. Praise for M. A. Hunter: 'Kept me guessing throughout and I raced to the end' Caz Finlay, bestselling author of the Bad Blood series 'Darkly thrilling' R. J. Parker, bestselling author of The Dinner...

The Missing Children Case Files: Case 6 'Mind-blowingly addictive!' Samantha Lee Howe, USA Today-bestselling author of The Stranger in Our Bed Three decades of disappearances... Every day bestselling investigative journalist Emma Hunter fails to solve the string of abductions corroding the south coast of England could end with another child's grave. Two decades of searching... After a brutal shooting in Leicestershire pulls the rug from beneath her meticulously crafted research, the local police in the small Midlands town tell her the suspect wants to speak to her. One second of shattering realisation... But when Emma arrives on the scene there's no sign of the suspect. Instead the police start questioning her. Because the woman they're holding in their cells is not who she seems. She's not remotely who she seems. The sixth instalment in The Missing Children Case Files concludes this unmissable crime saga about what happens when those charged with protecting us betray us – perfect...

The Missing Children Case Files: Case 3 'Mind-blowingly addictive!' Samantha Lee Howe, USA Today-bestselling author of The Stranger in Our Bed They stole away her future... A French woman stumbles out of a forest in Dorset almost two decades after vanishing from the English beach where she had been innocently building sandcastles under the not-so-watchful gaze of her holidaymaking parents. They never expected her to survive... As investigative journalist Emma Hunter sifts through the secrets of a seemingly unrelated disappearance with police archivist Jack, it soon becomes clear the two cases are linked. They never expected her to escape... Emma enlists her best friend and broadsheet reporter Rachel to trace the French woman's steps through the forest to a nightmarish underground cell littered with human bones. That's when Emma realises this woman could be the answer, the answer to everything. Murder, She Wrote meets Taken... The third gripping instalment in The Missing Children...

The Missing Children Case Files: Case 5 'Mind-blowingly addictive!' Samantha Lee Howe, USA Today-bestselling author of The Stranger in Our Bed They say memory is everyone's friend... Twenty years ago a girl was snatched from the Isle of Portland and the world kept on turning. Her name was Anna Hunter. And her sister's world ground to a halt. They say memory leaves you when you need it most... Emma Hunter is now a bestselling investigative journalist renowned internationally for her vigilante crusade to solve the string of missing children cases ravaging the south of England. They never say memory rushes back when you want it least... But it's always been about Anna. Every word of every page of every book. And so when a new case crashes like the waves of that fateful beach onto her desk, she doesn't hesitate. Because this one's different. The girl was found, she survived, and now she's begun to remember. The fifth sleep-stealing instalment in The Missing Children Case Files is an...