The Girl Under the Floor

Four days earlier. Maddie’s partner Vince is first on the scene. A single mother has been stabbed to death in her own home. And her terrified young daughter is trapped under the floorboards. Jade saw everything – but can remember nothing.Now. A rare Saturday morning off for Detective Maddie Ives. She’s about to have a long, relaxing shower when she gets the call: There’s been another one …Ron and Sandy Blackman’s brutalised bodies are found in the hallway of their idyllic rural home. They’ve been stabbed multiple times; Ron’s hands are tied tightly behind his back; Sandy has several fingernails ripped out. Both crime scenes look like robberies gone wrong – but Maddie is not convinced.The key to the mystery lies with 11-year-old Jade. Maddie and her team are in a race against time to find out the truth before the killer returns to make sure Jade’s memory never comes back …

'... both an emotional yet at times quite chilling read that had me thinking about it long after I’d finished it.' (on The Deadly Houses) -- On The Shelf Reviews blog

Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for 13 years. During that time he had many roles – starting as a front-line response officer, he became a member of a specialist tactical team and finally a detective investigating serious offences. Charlie left to concentrate on writing full time. Antonia Beamish is a London actor and voice artist who performed with Circus Archaos before being awarded a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC. She returned to London and was cast as the lead in Educating Rita for a European tour. Antonia is a prolific voice actor, with roles in Larian Studios's Divinity: Original Sin, and many audiobooks, including The Truth About Melody Brown by Lisa Jewell and Elodie Brown’s The Wolf Den Trilogy.

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