Wrong Way Home

‘Sympathetic and suspense-packed’ Sunday Times

‘A classy, satisfying read, superbly put together’ Mari Hannah

‘Fisher is a sympathetic, unexaggerated detective who cares’ The Times

A cold case leads DI Grace Fisher on the hunt for the most dangerous killer of her career – but after twenty-five years, is it still possible to get to the truth?

The same night a local hero saved two people from the burning Marineland resort in Southend, a young woman was raped and murdered minutes from the scene of the fire, the culmination of a series of brutal rapes in the town. The killer was never found.

Twenty-five years on, new DNA techniques have blown the cold case open. DI Grace Fisher relishes the prospect of finally catching the culprit, but when the evidence doesn’t point to one clear suspect, she must reconstruct the original investigation. Any suggestion that the Essex force had been misogynistic or corrupt in dealing with rape cases at the time could alienate her colleagues and destroy her chances of reaching the truth.

Yet she knows that a cold-blooded killer is slowly being backed into a corner, and a cornered predator is often the most dangerous of all…