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Chapters (73)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Chapter Three
  7. Chapter Four
  8. Chapter Five
  9. Chapter Six
  10. Chapter Seven
  11. Chapter Eight
  12. Chapter Nine
  13. Chapter Ten
  14. Chapter Eleven
  15. Chapter Twelve
  16. Chapter Thirteen
  17. Chapter Fourteen
  18. Chapter Fifteen
  19. Chapter Sixteen
  20. Chapter Seventeen
  21. Chapter Eighteen
  22. Chapter Nineteen
  23. Chapter Twenty
  24. Chapter Twenty-One
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-One
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  43. Chapter Forty
  44. Chapter Forty-One
  45. Chapter Forty-Two
  46. Chapter Forty-Three
  47. Chapter Forty-Four
  48. Chapter Forty-Five
  49. Chapter Forty-Six
  50. Chapter Forty-Seven
  51. Chapter Forty-Eight
  52. Chapter Forty-Nine
  53. Chapter Fifty
  54. Chapter Fifty-One
  55. Chapter Fifty-Two
  56. Chapter Fifty-Three
  57. Chapter Fifty-Four
  58. Chapter Fifty-Five
  59. Chapter Fifty-Six
  60. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  61. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  62. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  63. Chapter Sixty
  64. Chapter Sixty-One
  65. Chapter Sixty-Two
  66. Chapter Sixty-Three
  67. Chapter Sixty-Four
  68. A Letter From Rob
  69. Acknowledgements
  70. DI Dani Stephens
  71. Books by Rob Sinclair
  72. About the Author
  73. Also by Rob Sinclair

Was a smaller part of what Ben had stolen from her a sense of anonymity? It was true that in the past Dani had been a private person, a detective devoted to catching the bad guys rather than being in the limelight. Now, no matter what she did in her career, Dani would always be known as the woman who was almost killed by her serial killer brother.

Dani clenched her teeth.

‘It was your brother, wasn’t it?’ Barbara said, not yet reading the signs, as everyone else in the room cringed and just willed her to shut the hell up.

‘Yes,’ Dani said, her hands, her feet, her legs, now trembling as she struggled to contain her emotion. But she fought through it and when she spoke, she sounded calm and collected, almost detached. ‘My brother. My twin in fact, if you must know. He did this to me.’ She touched the scar. Ran a finger along its length. Remembering. ‘He tried to kill me. He didn’t succeed. And now he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars. I stopped him, just like I’ve stopped dozens of killers in the past. And I’ll do everything I can to find your son’s killer too.’

The room fell silent. Reeve nodded as though impressed with Dani’s resolve. Barbara just held Dani’s stare, her face giving nothing away.

When the tension grew unbearable, Dani sprang to her feet, fished her phone out of her bag and looked at the screen at the imaginary call coming through. ‘If you could excuse me a minute, I’ve just got to take this.’

She strode for the door without waiting for a response.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Dani took several gulps of fresh air as she stood outside the Reeves’ house, trying to rein in her irritability. She wanted nothing more than to be amenable and sympathetic to the parents of a young man who’d just been found murdered, but despite her best intentions, the mention of Ben and her past had a habit of bringing the worst out in Dani. The last thing she needed was to be butting heads with the parents of the deceased, but she’d felt about ready to explode at Barbara Reeve for bringing up her ordeal.

She took two more lungfuls of air and held her body rigidly in place, until the trembling stopped. Satisfied, she made her way back into the house.