The woman falls. Her body begins to shake. Her brown eyes turn upwards, showing a mix of panic and desperate hope. She takes a deep breath and says one word: ‘Blake.’ Then her eyes close, her face pales, and she goes still forever…

The victim: Shannon, a woman who went out of her way to help the lost and hopeless, left abandoned to die by the side of the road. Where was she in those last few days before her death, and why was she so frightened?

The avenger: Blake Claremont, who knows only too well how it feels to be alone on the streets of a big city. Blake survived, thanks to Shannon. She’s determined to find out who killed her friend, and why.

Before she died, Shannon was searching for answers. She knew that people were going missing… never to be seen again. Now, with the help of Detective John Byron, Blake must take up Shannon’s investigation. She knows these streets and the predators who walk in the darkness. She will follow in Shannon’s footsteps until she finds her target: the ruthless men and women who steal people’s lives and will do anything to protect their secrets.

And then, they will pay.

Prepare to be gripped by this unputdownable crime thriller, the second in the brilliant new series from the bestselling author of the Charlie Fox books. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Kendra Elliot and Cara Hunter won’t be able to put this down.

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When the evidence speaks, she listens.
CSI Grace McColl’s empathy with the victims of violent crime makes her ideally suited to gathering vital clues others might easily overlook. Tell Me is the poignant tale of the meeting between Grace and a young girl attacked in a local park. The victim may be reluctant to tell the CSI who she is and what happened, but the evidence speaks for itself.

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Zoë Sharp’s short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Strand Magazine, as well as award-winning anthologies in the UK and USA. They have been used in school textbooks, turned into short films, included in many Best Of collections, and nominated twice for the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Short Story Dagger.

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A dying confession.
Last chance to right an old wrong.
In Last Right, a prodigal son, a vanished wife, and a dying patriarch combine in a story of betrayal and revenge on the Mexican border.

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Zoë Sharp’s short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Strand Magazine, as well as award-winning anthologies in the UK and USA. They have been used in school textbooks, turned into short films, included in many Best Of collections, and nominated twice for the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Short Story Dagger.

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This short story collection follows ex-Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard Charlie Fox from a disused viaduct in Lancashire and the wilds of Dartmoor, via swanky Long Island and a spa hotel in the Catskill Mountains, to the war-torn Middle East. Danger and thrills go along for the ride.

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1. A Bridge Too Far

2. Postcards From Another Country

3. Served Cold

4. Off Duty

5. Truth And Lies

6. Across The Broken Line

7. Kill Me Again Slowly

8. Risk Assessment

9. Hounded

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She came back on the day of her father’s funeral, ten years after she vanished. But she can’t be who she says she is…

When Blake disappeared as a teenager, on a cold dark night, her father never reported her missing. She is presumed dead.

Now, ten years later, a young woman with white-blonde hair sits comfortably in the family living room and smiles at the shocked faces around her.

“Don’t you recognise me?” she says. “I’m Blake.”

Detective John Byron isn’t sure whether she’s telling the truth. But as he investigates, he soon realises no one is happy to see her.

And the people who should be welcoming her back with open arms know she can’t be Blake. Because they killed her the night she vanished…

Didn’t they?

From the bestselling author of the Charlie Fox books, The Last Time She Died will have you gripped until the last mind-blowing page. Fans of Cara Hunter, Kendra Elliot and Rachel Abbott will love this action-packed crime thriller.

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‘Before she was a bodyguard, she was a soldier…’

Charlie Fox is one of the toughest cookies you could ever hope to meet. Word of advice, though—don’t try to get her to talk about her time in the military. Let’s just say it didn’t end well.

Before her fall from grace, Charlie was considered a rising star. She made it through one of the toughest challenges any soldier would have to face—Selection for Special Forces. The nightmare that came next is a story I’ve explored in scenes and flashbacks throughout the series.

But what happened before that? Back when Charlie was a young soldier in the regular army, on patrol in Afghanistan, being kept away from the front line fighting as stipulated by the regulations concerning female personnel. What did she do back then to prove her worth as a specialised soldier, under life-and-death conditions? How did she earn her chance?

That is a story I’ve never told.

Until now.

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ROAD KILL: #05—Live fast. Die soon. Not if she can help it.
Charlie Fox is back in the UK, caught up in the aftermath of a fatal motorcycle ‘accident’ involving her closest friends. The only way to find out what really happened is to infiltrate a group of illegal road racers hell-bent on living fast and dying young. By the time she finds out what’s at stake, it might be too late to stop them all becoming road kill…

SECOND SHOT: #06—She’d die to save a child. Would she kill for one?
Charlie Fox’s latest assignment is to protect Simone and her daughter Ella from the attentions of an ex-boyfriend. Simone’s refusal to accept new security measures puts them in danger. After a bloody shoot-out in a frozen New England forest, Charlie is fighting for her life. Her only thought is to keep Ella safe. But Charlie’s in no fit state to protect anyone, least of all herself…

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KILLER INSTINCT: #01—He thought she was an easy target. He was wrong.
Charlie Fox is teaching self-defence to battered women. When her work brings her to the attention of a vicious rapist, will her skills be enough to save herself—and those she cares about most?

RIOT ACT: #02—Fear kept people down. Until she helped them make a stand.
Charlie Fox is supposed to be dog-sitting for a friend, not leading the resistance, but what’s a girl to do when the woman’s housing estate turns into an urban battlefield? She is more than able to take care of herself, until a ghost from her Army past comes calling. Someone she was trying very hard to forget…

HARD KNOCKS: #03—The British Army let her go. Big mistake.
Charlie Fox didn’t really care who shot dead her ex-army comrade during a bodyguard course in Germany. But when old flame Sean Meyer asks her to go undercover at the elite training school and find out what happened, she just can’t refuse.

She expected training to be tough, but will she graduate from this school of hard knocks alive?

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Ginger and Jack are both former soldiers from the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Time, chance and bloodshed force them apart. Twenty years later chance brings them back together—older, possibly wiser certainly richer. Jack has never married… Ginger has… And the one obstacle in their way is her ex-husband, Franco.

The intriguing combination of historical espionage thriller author John Lawton, and action thriller author Zoë Sharp, has produced a gripping crime novella about loyalty, betrayal, love and revenge, with action stretching from the Balkan Wars to modern-day Tuscany, from the glaciers of Iceland to the deceptively calm waters of the Mediterranean.

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The uncanny abilities of London crime-scene specialist Kelly Jacks to coax evidence from the most unpromising of crime scenes once earned her the nickname of The Blood Whisperer.

Then six years ago all that changed. Kelly woke next to the butchered body of a man, the knife in her hands and no memory of what happened. She trusted the evidence to prove her innocent. It betrayed her.

Now released after serving her sentence for involuntary manslaughter, Kelly must try to piece her life back together. The only work she can get is for the crime-scene cleaning firm run by her former mentor. When her instincts tell her things are not as they appear at the scene of a routine suicide, she can’t help but ask questions that somebody does not want answered.

Branded a killer once again, Kelly is soon fleeing from police, Russian thugs, and a local gangster. But she acquired a new set of skills on the inside. Now street-smart and wary, can she use everything she’s learned to evade capture and stay alive long enough to clear her name?

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