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DC Connie Childs Series

This series delves into the dark depths of family secrets and unresolved mysteries. Follow characters as they grapple with past traumas and seek truths long buried. Each installment unravels new layers of intrigue and emotional struggle, where long-lost memories resurface to haunt the present. It's a compelling exploration of loss, guilt, and the relentless pursuit of closure.

In bitter chill
A Deadly Thaw
The Shrouded Path
A Patient Fury

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  1. 1

    In bitter chill

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    Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins's mother commits suicide. Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her life. But news of the suicide re-opens old wounds and Rachel realises that the only way she can have a future is to finally discover what really happened all those years ago. This is a story about loss and family secrets, and how often the very darkest secrets are those that are closest to you.

    In bitter chill
  2. 2

    A Deadly Thaw

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    2004: In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew. Spring 2016: A year after Lena's release from prison, Andrew is found murdered in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed twelve years ago and why did she lie about his identity? When Lena disappears, her sister, Kat, follows a trail of clues delivered by a teenage boy

    A Deadly Thaw
  3. 3

    A Patient Fury

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
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    When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire- wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death. Three bodies discovered - a family obliterated - their deaths all seem to point to one conclusion: One mother, one murderer. But D.C.

    A Patient Fury
  4. 4

    The Shrouded Path

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
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    The past won't stay buried forever. November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air.

    The Shrouded Path