Book description
Sometimes the worst nightmares happen in broad daylight…
An utterly gripping novel for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham,
from a rising star in the crime genre.
A woman is found brutally murdered on a quiet housing estate, her
tongue and eyes ritualistically gouged out.
Children are being abducted and then returned to their families days
later without a scratch and with no knowledge or where they have been -
or with whom.
If DC Laura McGanity thought moving from London to sleepy Lancashire
was taking the easy option then she can think again. Already worried
about uprooting young son Bobby to follow her reporter boyfriend Jack
Garrett back to his hometown, she must quickly get a handle on these
mystifying cases terrifying the people of Blackley - without putting the
local officers' noses out of joint.
Meanwhile, restless Jack is itching to get back to his writing and the
cases provide the perfect opportunity to do so. But as he delves deeper
into them, he finds murky connections between the two crimes and
skeletons buried in the most unlikely of closets.
Most astonishing of all, he meets a man who 'paints' the future -
terrible events come to him in vivid dreams which he then puts onto
canvas. This 'precognition' is not so much a gift as a curse and to Jack
it becomes terrifyingly that many people, including his own family, are
in danger… Praise for Fallen Idols:
'Fallen Idols has been hailed as a stunning debut'.
The Blackpool Gazette
'Fallen Idols…has all the hallmarks of a great read for crime-thriller
fans with celebrity killings, conspiracies, revenge and even a hint of romance'.
The Weekly News
'… a whirlwind of a novel…a serious contender to match the giants of
the crime fiction world'
Crimesquad. com Born above a shoe shop in the mid-1960s, Neil spent
most of his childhood in Wakefield in West Yorkshire as his father
pursued a career in the shoe trade. This took Neil to Bridlington in his
teens, where he failed all his exams and discovered that doing nothing
soon turns into long-term unemployment. Re-inventing himself, Neil
returned to education in his 20s, qualified as a solicitor when he was
30, and now spends his days in the courtroom and his evenings writing
crime fiction
