'I'm scared. Come and get me.'

When DS Roy 'Hicksy' Hicks has to get out of London fast, he heads to Brighton. A few days at his sister's, he reckons. Peace and quiet. A chance to get his head straight.

Then his sixteen-year-old niece sends a message begging for help — and disappears.

Now Hicksy is hunting for a missing girl in a city he barely knows, with no warrant card, no backup, and no one to trust.

All he's got to go on is thirty years of knowing exactly how violent men think — and more front than Brighton.

Published
June 12, 2026
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Michael Dylan

I grew up in London, and I'll always be a Londoner — even though I've spent the last decade living in a small fishing village on the West Coast of Canada, walking my dog Buddy along the beach, and thinking probably too much about murder.I write gritty, fast-paced crime fiction: the DI Simon Wise series, set in the London streets I still know by heart; the Jo Batten MI5 thrillers; and the Roy Hicks Brighton Crime Thrillers. I run on an unreasonable amount of tea (never coffee) and I eat more chocolate than I'm prepared to admit to. When I'm not making up stories, I'm shouting at Chelsea FC, or trying to convince my kids that a comic book…