Under a Silent Moon

P. D. James meets E. L. James in the debut of an exciting British crime series--a blend of literary suspense and page-turning thriller in a novel that will "give puzzle fiends plenty to chew on" ( New York Times Book Review ). In the crisp, early hours of an autumn morning, the police are called to investigate two cases . . . A beautiful young woman has been found dead, her cottage drenched with blood. A car with a woman's body inside has been found at the bottom of a quarry pit, an apparent suicide. As DCI Louisa Smith and her team gather evidence over the course of the next six days, they discover a shocking link between the two cases--a bond that sealed these women's terrible fates one cold night, under a silent moon. In this first entry in this "promising procedural series" ( Booklist ), Elizabeth Haynes interweaves fictional primary source materials--police reports, phone messages, interviews--and multiple character viewpoints to create a sexy, edgy, and compulsively readable tale of murder, mystery, and unsettling suspense. Includes an excerpt from Behind Closed Doors , the next book featuring Detective Inspector Louisa Smith.