Michael Robotham

Alisha Barba's best friend is eight-months pregnant when she steps onto a London street and is hit by a car that shatters her body and kills her husband. As paramedics fight to save Cate's life they discover that she isn't pregnant after all. Her 'baby' is an elaborate lie; a cruel deception. Now Alisha has to find out why. What was Cate planning to do in four weeks when she couldn't hide the truth any longer? Tracing her friend's final days, interviewing family and witnesses, Alisha uncovers a story of desperation and high stakes. Money is missing. A house is burned down. And a tragic accident looks more and more like murder. It is a search that will take her from the East End of London to the Red Light District of Amsterdam and into an underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation. Ultimately, she will uncover the truth on a lonely night ferry in the midst of the North Sea and discover that everything has a price.

A lost child. A shattered past. A life going under ...Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood and consciousness fast. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, and when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him. A mile away from his body, a boat was found covered in blood -- Vincent's and that of three others. Forensics say at least one of them must be dead. Vincent, a police detective, had signed his service pistol out of the station armoury, despite being on leave. Many murder suspects fake amnesia, and the investigating team are not sure this case is any different ...The only clue is a picture in his pocket, a photograph of a young girl, Mickey Carlyle, who disappeared three years ago. And though Mickey is presumed dead, Vincent has the nagging doubt that she is alive and in terrible danger...