Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has given up police work for a quiet life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge. But when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI Max Trentham, Jill's ex-colleague, wants her back at work. As they hunt Martin's killer, they discover that nothing is as it seems.

When the killer strikes again, Jill and Max find themselves in a desperate

Shirley Wells lives in Lancashire, United Kingdom. She has published twelve novels, of which the most recent is Into the Shadows, the first novel in the Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham series.