Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook release of The Taken by Alice Clark-Platts, browse by Rachel Bavidge.

There’s the lost.

There’s the lacking.

And there’s the taken.

She asked me once if we had any secrets, and I shook my head.

‘No secrets between us,’ she said.

‘No,’ I actually answered. ‘Never ever.’

Within a Durham hotel at dawn, celebrated preacher Tristan Snow is murdered as he prays. non-e of the other guests – not even his child, his wife, or her sister – noticed or heard about The Used: DI Erica Martin Publication 2 anything.

But then again, they all had a motive for murder.

Detective Inspector Erica Martin is definitely faced with secrets and is situated, lost within a case where nothing is what it appears.

Without answers, DI Martin is consumed by questions: Is anyone in this family innocent? When the sufferer may have been a monster – will there be any such thing as justice? And will anyone should have to die?

Praise for Alice Clark-Platts:

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‘A gripping, highly charged thriller’

Ralph Fiennes

‘A brilliantly plotted and utterly gripping thriller’

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‘Superb … A very assured page-turning surprise I read in a single sitting’

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‘Interesting and sinister with masterful plotting and tension’

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