Book description
Early one morning in the seaside resort of Whitley Bay, the lifeless
body of a young girl, Sophie Washington, is found brutally murdered -
her face mutilated beyond recognition
DI Jack Brady, recovering from a vicious shooting incident, is on the
edge. Struggling with his marriage break-up and his tortured past, his
problems intensify when friend and colleague DI James Matthews
confidentially reveals that he was with the victim the night of her murder.
Brady's loyal deputy, the clean-cut Detective Sergeant Harry Conrad and
police psychologist Dr Amelia Jenkins are assigned with Brady to solve
the victim's murder. But the investigation becomes increasingly
compromised as Brady realises that Matthews is holding something back.
As Brady delves ever deeper into Sophie's life, he comes to realise
that the three men who should have protected her during her short life
are the chief suspects in her murder: her teacher, her step-father and a
police detective. Danielle Ramsay is a proud Scot living in a small
seaside town in the North-East of England. Always a storyteller, it was
only after initially following an academic career lecturing in
literature that she found her place in life and began to write
creatively full-time. After much hard graft her work was short-listed
for the CWA Debut Dagger in 2009. Always on the go, always passionate in
what she is doing, Danielle fills her days with horse-riding, running
and murder by proxy.
