Book description
Monday morning. The tension in the air at St Michael's School is
palpable, for popular sixth former, Ryan Connelly has gone missing. When
Ryan's badly burned corpse is discovered, the explanation seems all too
simple: the young footballer died while experimenting with drugs His
teacher, Geri Simpson, cannot accept the official verdict. But as she
tries to investigate, she finds her own life is under threat. Margaret
Murphy has written nine psychological thrillers - both standalone and
police series. Her work has been published in the UK and the USA, and in
translation across Europe, receiving accolades from broadsheets and
tabloid newspapers alike, as well as starred reviews from
Publishers Weekly
and Booklist
in the USA. Her novels have been shortlisted for the First Blood
critics' award for crime fiction, and the Crime Writers' Association
(CWA) Dagger in the Library; she was the joint winner of the 2012 CWA
Short Story Dagger. Margaret is founder of Murder Squad, a touring group
of crime writers, and in 2009-10 she was Chair of the CWA. As well as
teaching creative writing, she has been a countryside ranger, science
teacher and dyslexia specialist, and her lifelong passion for science is
reflected in her painstaking research for her novels. In 2013 she will
publish her first collaborative novel with forensic scientist Prof. Dave
Barclay, under the pseudonym A. D. Garrett.
