The Lost Victim

<p><strong>When school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses.</strong><span> Now, thirty years later, private detective Kate Marshall has been approached by a true crime podcast producer with an intriguing question they need her help answerin</span><strong> What if Janey was killed by Peter Conway, the notorious Nine Elms Cannibal?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>The contract would be the most lucrative of Kate's career,</strong><span> </span><strong>but it comes with a price of its own, dredging up a sordid, complicated past that she would sooner forget</strong><span> . . . one that the paparazzi are determined to keep in the headlines.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>As Kate and her partner, Tristan, scour King's Cross for clues, no two leads seem to point in the same direction. </span><strong>The last person to see Janey alive has already been tried, convicted, and then acquitted of her murder, Peter Conway is in poor health and fading fast</strong><span>, and the line between their clients and their suspects is blurring with each new revelation about the case.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>With little to work from, can Tristan and Kate wade through clandestine phone calls, decades-old secrets, and deteriorating DNA evidence to </span><strong>solve Janey's murder, or will she remain one of London's countless missing persons, forever lost to time?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>A brilliantly gripping thriller from the global multi-million-copy bestselling author, <em>The Lost Victim</em> will have you hooked from the first page and holding your breath all the way to the heart-stopping ending.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Can be read as a standalone.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p></strong></p><p><strong><span>2025 IngramSpark® Editorial Selection - Mystery/Thriller</span></strong></p>