Detective Charlotte Winters

Genres: Police Procedurals; Female Sleuths; Thrillers; Crime Fiction

Synopsis

From book 1:

The girl's chestnut hair sways gently in the shallow water, her skin cold. Grains of sand decorate her beautiful white cheeks like freckles. First, she was taken from her family, and now it won't be long before she's taken by the tide...

Kara Dawkins is missing. One minute she was sitting on a park bench, her coat wrapped around her against the biting cold. The next minute, she was gone.

Her mother is beside herself with worry. Kara's messy, poster-covered bedroom feels so empty without her lying scross her bed with ehr headphones on, her feet tapping to the beat. Did she run away, or was she snatched? Does anyone know she's been sneaking out at night, or about the secret hidden inside her jewellery box?

But then another girl's body washes up on the beach a few days later, in the exact spot where the last trace of Detective Charlie Winters' missing sister was found years ago. It can't be a coincidence, not in a town as small as this. By taking Kara, someone is re-opening the wounds of the past and setting a deadly trap. And unless Charlie steps forward to take the bait, many more innocent victims will follow...