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  • Published: 3 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780718181116
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

The Taken

DI Erica Martin Book 2





Murder, secrets and lies in the city of Durham.

In a Durham boarding house at dawn, Pastor Tristan Snow is murdered while he prays.

Detective Inspector Erica Martin's investigation encounters a host of suspects all staying in the boarding house.

Violet Snow, his daughter, who seems unsurprised by her father's murder. Sera Snow, his inscrutable wife. Her sister, Antonia, who was closer to the Pastor than anyone yet knows. And Fraser McKenzie, Snow's manager and best friend, who has his own dark secrets to hide.

DI Martin soon learns that this is a case in which nothing is what it seems, and no-one is innocent...

  • Published: 3 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780718181116
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

About the author

Alice Clark-Platts

Alice Clark-Platts is a former human rights lawyer who has worked at the UN International Criminal Tribunal in connection with the Rwandan genocide, and on cases involving Winnie Mandela and the rapper Snoop Dogg. A graduate of the Curtis Brown creative writing course, her novel Warchild has been shortlisted for the Impress Prize 2013, and this first DI Erica Martin novel, Bitter Fruits, won the Furniss Lawton Crime and Thriller Prize for unpublished crime writers.

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Praise for The Taken

Praise for Bitter Fruits

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This had me on the edge of my sun lounger for a whole day. Excellent plotting and a genuinely unguessable resolution to the mystery

Sophie Hannah

A brilliantly plotted and utterly gripping thriller

Emma Kavanagh

Grabbed me from the first page and wouldn't let go. A compelling read, beautifully written ... A tense, captivating tale, brilliantly told

Rachel Abbott

A gripping, precise and highly charged thriller

Ralph Fiennes
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