Sweet Briar Rose(2021)

Alex Smith

DCI Kett is back, heading Norfolk Constabulary’s brand-new Extreme Crime Task Force.

And it’s just in time. The body of a woman bound in thorns is discovered in Norwich’s historic Cow Tower. In her mouth is a severed finger wrapped in a scrap of red cloth, and the first few lines of a fairy tale.

“Once upon a time, a young maiden waited to be saved from a hideous monster.”

The finger belongs to another missing girl, and if Kett, Porter and Savage want to find her alive they must follow a chain of blood-drenched riddles, each victim leading to the next and each crime more horrific than the last.

Because this killer is telling a story, and he’ll do anything to stop it from having a happy ending.

Join DCI Kett, DI Porter and DC Savage on their most dangerous and disturbing case yet, in the internationally bestselling series that Thrilling Fiction calls “the most addictive and action-packed crime saga you’ll ever read.”