Lost Lives: A Gripping and Unputdownable Crime Thriller From a Real-Life Police Detective

✍ Scribed by Cutts, Lisa

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 215 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: London, UK
• ISBN: 1471168301

✦ Synopsis

'A shocking and all-too-believable thriller . . . Lisa Cutts knows exactly what she’s talking about. More importantly, she knows exactly how to tell a cracking story' MARK BILLINGHAM

'Utterly gripping and hauntingly realistic, I raced through this in one sitting' LISA HALL

The unputdownable new crime novel, brimming with expert knowledge and authenticity, from an author with over twenty years’ policing experience.

SHE TRUSTED THEM WITH HER LIFE

When Anna arrives in the UK, she believes it’s the start of a better life for her and her daughter. But what awaits her is more shocking than anything she could have ever imagined . . .

SHE TRUSTED THEM WITH HER DAUGHTER

DI Harry Powell is investigating a shooting, but the victim has been scared into silence. As Harry struggles to piece together what little information he has, he stumbles upon an operation that may put countless lives across the country at risk.

SHE WAS WRONG

As Anna’s situation grows more dangerous by the day, Harry is forced to push his overstretched team to the limits to find answers. But for one of them, will it already be too late?

?'Compelling, pacy, full of tension that** had me gripped from the first page to the last' ANGELA MARSONS

‘A genuinely immersive read. Lisa’s background as a detective is used to such good effect in this clever, suspenseful tale’ **
** KATE RHODES**

'Not only** a smart, compulsive police procedural**, but also a candid and compassionate exposure of people trafficking . . .** An important story, superbly and entertainingly told’ **
** LOUISE CANDLISH , author of OUR HOUSE

'A moving and thought-provoking story that highlights one of today’s most merciless crimes . . . Compulsive reading '

RACHEL ABBOTT

'Lost Lives left me breathless . . . heartbreaking and thrilling - this is pure genius '

ELIZABETH HAYNES

‘Masterful storytelling from a writerat the top of her game’
JULIE WASSMER

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About the Author

Lisa Cutts is the author of two police procedural novels, based on her nineteen years of policing experience. She works as a detective constable for Kent Police and has spent ten years in the Serious Crime Directorate dealing mostly with murders and other serious investigations. She has been on BBC Radio 4's Open Book with Mariella Frostrup, part of First Fictions festival at West Dean college, Chichester, on the inaugural panel at Brighton's Dark and Stormy festival and the Chiswick Book Festival 2015. Her debut novel, Never Forget, won the 2014 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for best thriller.