Lucie Whitehouse – författare

The gripping new crime thriller from the bestselling author of Before We Met and Critical Incidents Robin Lyons is back in her hometown of Birmingham and now a DCI with Force Homicide, working directly under Samir, the man who broke her heart almost twenty years ago.When a woman is found stabbed to death in a derelict factory and no one comes forward to identify the body, Robin and her team must not only hunt for the murderer, but also solve the mystery of who their victim might be.As Robin and Samir come under pressure from their superiors, from the media and from far-right nationalists with a dangerous agenda, tensions in Robin's own family threaten to reach breaking point. And when a cold case from decades ago begins to smoulder and another woman is found dead in similar circumstances, rumours of a serial killer begin to spread.In order to get to the truth Robin will need to discover where loyalty ends and duty begins. But before she can trust, she is going to have to forgive – and that means grappling with some painful home truths.

A TEENAGER FOUND DEAD A FAMILY SEEKING ANSWERS A DETECTIVE WITH A GUILTY SECRET...When teenager Ben Renshaw is found dead, DCI Robin Lyons is plunged into the heart of one of the most contentious cases in Birmingham's history.At an out-of-control house party the previous summer, Ben and his best friend witnessed the son of a rich local family commit an act of shocking violence against a female classmate. Is Ben's murder now an act of vengeance from the powerful family, or something even more sinister? To find out, Robin will have to negotiate the city's networks of influence while walking a dangerous line: her family has a secret of its own, one that could threaten her daughter's safety and make Robin question all she has ever believed...'Exactly what great crime fiction should be: smart, twisty, shocking and compassionate' SARAH HILARY'Every interview crackles with tension... LAST WITNESS serves up a final double whammy that few readers will see coming' THE TIMES

'Best book I've read this year! Amazing police procedural!!... When is the next one coming out !?! I need to know!' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A TEENAGER FOUND DEADA FAMILY SEEKING ANSWERSA DETECTIVE WITH A GUILTY SECRET...When teenager Ben Renshaw is found dead, DCI Robin Lyons is plunged into the heart of one of the most contentious cases in Birmingham's history.At an out-of-control house party the previous summer, Ben and his best friend witnessed the son of a rich local family commit an act of shocking violence against a female classmate.Is Ben's murder now an act of vengeance from the powerful family, or something even more sinister?To find out, Robin will have to negotiate the city's networks of influence while walking a dangerous line: her family has a secret of its own, one that could threaten her daughter's safety and make Robin question all she has ever believed...'Exactly what great crime fiction should be: smart, twisty, shocking and compassionate' SARAH HILARY'Every interview crackles with tension... LAST WITNESS serves up a final double whammy that few readers will see coming' THE TIMESRead what everyone is saying about Last Witness:'I didn't put this down' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I loved this book, my favourite of the three and hope that there'll be a fourth very soon!' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Best book I've read this year!'Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I was utterly gripped' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'She knows her procedural stuff but what she knows even better is people.' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I cannot praise this series enough! Gritty, gripping and thrilling all in one! Would recommend!' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This is genuinely one of the best crime novels I have ever read' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An absolute must read for all those that love crime procedure thrillers.' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I really hope this is not the last one!'Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

SOME SECRETS SHOULD STAY BURIEDOn a warm May night, a woman is found dead at the wheel of her car on a Birmingham back street, a single knife wound to her throat.To DCI Robin Lyons, the clinical murder initially suggests organized crime, especially when she learns that the victim, Heather Pethick, lived on a farm with access to secluded coves on the Cornish coastline. Was she a courier, delivering drugs or even people to a contact in the city?The more Robin learns, though, the less likely that seems. Heather's distraught husband is adamant she'd never jeopardize the life they had built with their four-year-old son, Mikey, especially given her own precarious childhood.And then another woman goes missing - a woman with whom Heather had been seen in fraught conversation just hours before she died.Uncovering the truth will take Robin down a rabbit hole into a world where accountability is shrugged off as lightly as a summer jacket, a world that will cause unimaginable devastation to Robin's . . .

SOME SECRETS SHOULD STAY BURIEDOn a warm May night, a woman is found dead at the wheel of her car on a Birmingham back street, a single knife wound to her throat.To DCI Robin Lyons, the clinical murder initially suggests organized crime, especially when she learns that the victim, Heather Pethick, lived on a farm with access to secluded coves on the Cornish coastline. Was she a courier, delivering drugs or even people to a contact in the city?The more Robin learns, though, the less likely that seems. Heather's distraught husband is adamant she'd never jeopardize the life they had built with their four-year-old son, Mikey, especially given her own precarious childhood.And then another woman goes missing - a woman with whom Heather had been seen in fraught conversation just hours before she died.Uncovering the truth will take Robin down a rabbit hole into a world where accountability is shrugged off as lightly as a summer jacket, a world that will cause unimaginable devastation to Robin's . . .

A Richard & Judy Summer Book Club pickA whirlwind romance. A perfect marriage.Hannah Reilly has seized her chance at happiness. Until the day her husband fails to come home . . .And can you ever really know what happened before you met?

Those who love Girl on the Train, The Good Liar and The Widow will love this thrilling novel from acclaimed author Lucie Whitehouse'It’s very very tense, it’s quite twisty and there are some really fantastic shockers in it ... I really really loved it ... It’s an absolute must' Claire Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go'Keep You Close kept me up all night long. I couldn't stop reading until I reached the final, shattering pages.' Amanda Eyre WardThey said it was a tragic accident. She knows better...The brilliant young painter Marianne Glass is found dead in her snow-covered garden, apparently from a fatal fall.Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, knows it wasn’t an accident.Marianne had vertigo, paralysing vertigo.She never would have gone that close to the edge…