LAST ONE ALIVE

Discover the hottest crime thriller this year.

EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH TWIST AFTER TWIST.

Daisy-Mae wakes up cold, alone and in pain, her wrists bound tight. She has no idea where she is or how she got there. Too weak to sit up, she turns her head to the wall.

Then she sees it.

Three words, scrawled in large, black letters: DON’T WAKE UP.

Detective Maddie Ives is on the case. Daisy-Mae was reported missing by her friend Megan when she didn’t turn up for work at the coffee shop.

Megan disappears the next day.

New Year’s Eve, 1999. Twenty-two years ago, two young women set off home from the nightclub where they worked. Their battered bodies were found five days later. The killer was never caught.

The night club became a coffee shop where Megan and Daisy-Mae now work.

Is history repeating itself?

Maddie is in a desperate race against time to find Daisy-Mae and Megan before they suffer the cruellest fate. Because when they do wake up, that’s when the nightmare begins . . .

Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Val McDermid, Jo Nesbo, Lynda La Plante, Helen H. Durrant, Cara Hunter, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney or Mark Billingham.

DON’T MISS THE MOST UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER YOU’LL READ THIS YEAR!

PRAISE FOR CHARLIE GALLAGHER

“One of the best police procedural authors available right now.” Tracy W.

“Absolutely loved this book from start to finish.” Nerys R.

“Could not put this one down. This author is fantastic. I have loved every single bit of this book.” Vikkie W.

“This is my No. 1 favourite crime author.” Greta H.

THE DETECTIVE
Detective Sergeant Maddie Ives was destined for the top. Plucked from the police training college before ever making the street, she was thrust into the world of undercover policing that forces a young woman to survive on her wits. It worked, Maddie seemed to find her place. But a simple mistake saw her once again wrenched out of her comfort zone. From a broken family, now with a broken career — both of which have played their part in conditioning her never to let anyone too close — Maddie finds herself investigating a murder in a new county and in a team full of strangers, hoping her passion for the truth and protecting the vulnerable will be enough.

THE AUTHOR
Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for more than ten years, starting as a front-line response officer, then as a member of a specialist tactical team and as a detective investigating serious offences.

ALSO BY CHARLIE GALLAGHER
MADDIE IVES SERIES
Book 1: HE IS WATCHING YOU
Book 2: HE WILL KILL YOU
Book 3: HE WILL FIND YOU
Book 4: HE KNOWS YOUR SECRETS
Book 5: HE WILL GET YOU
Book 6: THE DEADLY HOUSES
Book 7: LAST ONE ALIVE

GEORGE ELMS LANGTHORNE SERIES
Book 1: BODILY HARM
Book 2: PANIC BUTTON
Book 3: BLOOD MONEY
Book 4: END GAME
Book 5: MISSING
Book 6: THEN SHE RAN
Book 7: HER LAST BREATH

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