Description: DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST ELECTRIFYING CRIME SERIES EVER WRITTEN. Meet Janine Lewis. A single mum of three and Manchester's newest detective chief inspector. Her cheating husband walked out the day she got promoted. Now she's six months pregnant with his baby and in charge of her first murder case. The body of a deputy head teacher is found on a lonely allotment. Gutted -- his stomach sliced open -- and left for dead. The only witnesses are a dying elderly man and a seven-year-old girl. And now the prime suspect has disappeared . . . Discover the books behind the hit ITV detective drama, starring Caroline Quentin. **Cath Staincliffe has been shortlisted twice for the prestigious CWA Dagger in the Library Award.** Fans of Rachel McLean, Angela Marsons, D.S. Butler, Lynda La Plante, Rebecca Bradley and Caro Ramsay are sure to be hooked from the first page to the shocking final twist.
Brief description: Cath was brought up in Bradford and attended Birmingham University where she graduated with a Drama and Theatre Arts degree. She then moved to Manchester to work as a community artist and now lives there with her family. Cath is also a scriptwriter, creator of ITV's hit police drama, Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis, which has sold worldwide in places as diverse as Fiji, Iceland and Yemen. Cath's Blue Murder novels will be published by Joffe Books. In addition to the New Blood Dagger, Cath has been short listed (twice) for the CWA Dagger in the Library, and twice for the Short Story Dagger. In 2012 Cath and Margaret Murphy were joint winners of the Short Story Dagger, for their stories, Laptop and The Message, in the Murder Squad anthology Best Eaten Cold. Letters To My Daughter's Killer was selected for Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club in 2014 and featured on ITV3's Crime Thriller Club. Cath was a joint winner of the WGGB Best Radio Drama Award 2019 for Stone Series 7. Running Out of Road is short-listed for the eDunnit best novel Award at CrimeFest 2022. Cath is a founder member of Murder Squad, a virtual collective of northern crime writers. She is an avid reader and likes hill-walking, messing about in the garden and dancing (with far more enthusiasm than grace).