The Fourth Friend

FOUR LOST FRIENDS. FOUR TASKS TO COMPLETE. ONE BIG MYSTERY LEFT.Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks. So for each of his four friends he decides to complete something that they left unfinished.Eighteen months before the crash, Suzanne Holland disappeared, leaving a room with traces of blood, but no other leads. Suzanne was the wife of one of Carter’s four best friends.Adding to the pressure, the boss’s niece has a stalker. Due to the sensitivity of the Holland case, Carter is put on this investigation.DS Marie Evans is the only person Carter can confide in. But even she begins to doubt whether he can really cope and whether he is actually losing his mind.DI Jackman and DS Evans of the Fenland police face a battle to untangle three mysteries, and can they really believe their friend and colleague Carter?

Joy Ellis is an English crime author, based in the Lincolnshire Fens, who has written more than 30 books over three series. All of her print books have also been published in audio, and the Jackman books were made into a TV series starring Richard Armitage as DI Rowan Jackman.Joy had an unusual start to her crime-writing career. She began her working life in the 1960s as an apprentice florist in Covent Garden before opening her own flower shop in Lincolnshire. Later in life, she left the flowers behind her, dedicating her life to writing gritty crime thrillers set in the Fens, where she loves the remoteness and airy beauty of the marshlands. Her partner Jacqueline is a highly decorated retired police officer, and her harshest critic when it comes to police procedure. Joy recently celebrated her tenth #1 in the Amazon Kindle bestseller charts. Richard Armitage is an English actor and author who’s first leading role was in the BBC’s North & South. He best known for his role as dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's film trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit, which brought him international recognition. He is a prolific audiobook narrator with credits such as The River’s Edge by Joy Ellis and Fiona McIntosh’s By By Baby, as well as author of bestselling thriller Geneva.

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