Shelter Me

Rob Gittins is an award-winning screenwriter who has written for most of the UK’s top-rated television drama series of the past twenty years – including EastEnders, The Bill, Heartbeat and Casualty. In 2015, in recognition of his work as the longest-serving writer in the history of the show, he received an Outstanding Achievement Award for EastEnders.

‘Terrifying and suspenseful, non-stop jeopardy. Just be glad you’re only reading it and not in it.’Tony Garnett, Producer: Kes, Cathy Come Home, Cops, This Life‘A powerful and dynamic piece of writing. Uncomfortable, taut, brutal, it will shock you out of complacency and hold you gripped right to the end. A wonderful piece of writing.’CambriaRos Gilet is a cop who doesn’t catch criminals. She’s not even supposed to investigate crimes. As a Witness Protection Officer, she’s always been a protector rather than a prosecutor. But all that’s about to change.Since the brutal gunning down of her sister 20 years earlier, Ros has lived her whole life in the Protection system. Those behind that killing have now tracked down and killed her father too. A message left in his blood at the scene promises her own imminent death.Determined to finally discover the truth behind what’s happened to her family, she uncovers a treacherous case of deception and corruption across the globe. As the story draws inexorably towards its bloody conclusion, Ros is driven to contemplate a final and deadly revenge.Shelter Me completes the trilogy begun by tense thrillers Gimme Shelter and Secret Shelter. Visceral, packed full of hypnotic characters and set in a world in which nothing should ever be taken at face value, Shelter Me is the dramatic conclusion to the gripping story of Ros Gilet.