An evening with M.J. Arlidge & Tim Weaver

Get ready for a thrilling evening, with a double dose of cracking crime fiction!

Out of the Ashes - M.J. Arlidge

As her best friend fights for her life, DI Helen Grace hunts her attacker in unfamiliar territory. Under pressure as never before, Helen knows that this time everything is on the line. Her boss has told her that failure is not an option, whilst the Dutch underworld will stop at nothing to protect one of their own.

But for Helen this mission is personal. Which is why she has vowed to catch the desperate fugitive or die trying…

The Lost Women - Tim Weaver

Before he was a missing persons investigator, David Raker was a journalist – and there's one story that still haunts him. The Lost Women.

Eighteen years ago, on the Cornish coast, three women were filming a documentary about a missing student…until they vanished too. With no bodies and no leads, the disappearances remain unsolved.

Today, Raker is hired to crack an impossible mystery. Following a car accident, Preston Stewart has surgery on his face. The operation is a success. But when the dressings are removed, Preston's wife realises something is very wrong. The man under the bandages is not her husband.

Raker and his ally, former detective Colm Healy, begin digging into Preston’s disappearance – and discover a horrifying connection to the lost women.

But there’s something even worse. The men only have 48 hours to solve both cases – or everything that matters to them and everyone they love is in danger…