THE GIRLS UPSTAIRS
The girls are sleeping upstairs. If their parents make one wrong move, their daughters will die.
Emmy and her little sister Dani are sleeping in their bedroom upstairs. Their parents are in the kitchen.
A knife is jammed to their mother’s throat. Their father has a stack of kitchen plates balanced on his back.
The intruder rasps, ‘Don’t be breathing too hard now. I reckon smashing plates is the sort of noise that’ll wake a child. Have them coming down to see what’s going on. There can’t be witnesses . . .’
What Detective Maddie Ives will find in that nice family kitchen will horrify even this most hardened cop.
And she knows the victim . . .
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Charlie Gallagher
Charlie Gallagher has been writing for twenty years, most of that time as a hobby but with the dream of one day 'doing it properly.' Alongside this hobby it was necessary to have a day job which, for thirteen years, was as a serving U.K. police officer. This career in policing opened up a whole new world of experiences and opportunities and he is now fortunate enough to be able to channel those experiences into stories on a full time basis.
Whilst a police officer, Charlie worked as a response officer, a member of a specialist tactical team, a detective and in a regional counter terrorism unit.
Detective Maddie Ives
Detective Maddie Ives consists of nine books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
